Barbara Colebrook Peace comes from Northumberland in northern England. She emigrated to Canada when she was awarded a fellowship at the University of Victoria. After completing a master's degree in Classics, she worked for a number of years in art galleries. Her poetry has been published in Canadian literary journals and anthologies, and in her chapbook Twelve Silences (The Hawthorne Society, 1998).

Threshold
An Anthology of Six New Female Poets
edited by Rona Murray
with Dorothy Field, Alisa Gordaneer, Kelly Parsons, Suzanne Steele, and Susan Stenson

Open this book at any page and you will find a poem worth reading. The six writers in this fine anthology may not be well known, but they are not "beginners;" they are skilled and confident and intelligent. Reading their work is, to quote Barbara Peace, like "opening silence." Rona Murray is to be congratulated for bringing together such excellent work in this collection.