About Barbi Walker-Walsh

Barbi Walker-Walsh has spent forty years as a flight attendant, logging millions of miles and more layovers than she can count—from Arizona to Hong Kong to Tanzania—giving her a front-row seat to the beautiful absurdity of human behavior at 35,000 feet and in every time zone. She considers herself incredibly lucky to have studied novel writing under the late, great Jim Sallis (Drive) and later went into journalism as a way into fiction.

A freelance journalist with a bachelor’s degree from ASU’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and a Master of Arts in American Journalism from NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, she has published work in The Arizona Republic, Green Living AZ, Lifestyles AZ, Climate & Capital Media, The Wrangler, among others. She is also the co-author of the self-published memoir The Widow’s Tale.

OLIVIA’S GOT PROBLEMS is her first novel — fueled by her own white-knuckle years navigating the sandwich generation, the eldercare system’s spectacular failures, and the complicated love we have for the parents who made us who we are, whether we like it or not.

For enquiries, write to barbi@barbiwalkerwalsh.com.