Zofia Barisas

Zofia D.Barisas was born in Montreal, Canada. She attended the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts School there and later moved to Toronto, where she studied Interior Design at Ryerson. She has renovated houses and landscaped gardens in Canada, the US and Mexico. She has traveled through the Americas, Europe and part of North Africa. She […]

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Washing Dishes in the Ancient Village / Lavando platos en el antiguo pueblo: A Few Comments

Washing Dishes in the Ancient Village / Lavando platos en el antiguo pueblo is a collection of one-hundred short poems about Mexico and Latin America. Because I wrote this book, I do not intend to review it here but rather to recount some of the experiences I had while writing this little book. I have been […]

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Agave Marias: Border Crossers, Boundary Breakers by the Lake Chapala Women Writers

Cogan’s Reviews Here’s an unusual volume with ten individual authors, each of whom is independent of the other nine except for the fact they all reside – either full or part-time – in the Lake Chapala area of Mexico. Their book consists of some 45 or more pieces of fiction and non-fiction plus a poem […]

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