Barbara Graham has been a falconer, karate instructor and a Vietnamese linguist in the Army. She is a hang glider pilot and instructor, has worked as a video game animator,motorcycle messenger and sportfishing boat cook; getting in hours of quality big-gamefishing in between hamburgers. Following surgery for a torn rotator cuff, due in part to repetitive casting and hauling in big fish, she has turned to writing to pass the timeuntil it heals well enough to take up and master paragliding. Her hobbies include motorcycling, deep sea fishing, and exposing the lies and fraud of the "church" of Scientology.

She won the San Diego Book Award for 'best unpublished short story'in 2006.
She currently just finished a novel involving a destructive cult and series of mysterious deaths at a private school covertly operated by same.