Soul Searching

Dr. Barbara Yeager has been teaching, writing, editing, and producing, in one genre or another for forty years. Throughout her classroom career, she taught composition, technical writing, and creative writing to graduate and undergraduate students, along with courses in British and American Literature, Children’s and Adolescent literature. Her other teaching assignments included courses in world religions and a variety of philosophy courses including ethics and introductions to classical and medieval, and modern philosophy.. Her published works include poetry found in Wild Sweet Notes: Fifty Years of West Virginia Poetry, two outdoor drama productions The Secret of the Cellars and They Walked Our Land, and a text for teachers of pre-school children, Leading to Learning. Dr. Yeager edited collections of Appalachian short stories, Stories from the Hills, and a reader for Appalachian middle school students, named The Wooden Tower. For many years she served on the board of Mountain State Press and served as its president two of those years. Retirement is giving her the time to write and bring to the public the works that have been simmering in progress over the years. Studying, full-time teaching and raising five children with her busy husband Jack provided a rich treasure chest from which to draw creative ideas. Now life has added ten grandchildren. She happily looks forward to the works they may inspire.