Barbara Langhorst's first book, Restless White Fields (2012), won Poetry Book of the Year Awards in Alberta and Saskatchewan. Her debut novel, Want (2018), was shortlisted for the Regina Public Library Book of the Year. Her second novel, The Winter-Blooming Tree, was released in Oct. 2021. After teaching at St. Peter's College in Muenster, SK for nearly 20 years, she and her husband have relocated to a townhouse with a tiny perfect kitchen in Edmonton, AB.