Her poems and stories tend to reflect loss and yearning for connection. After publishing several chapbooks of her own work and of writer/students’, Barton is moving forward with the launch of Willawaw Journal, an online magazine of poetry and art, with the first issue scheduled for Summer, 2017. She has just released a chapbook, Out of the Woods, May, 2017. Her chapbook, Happiness Comes, will be published by Kristy Bowen’t Dancing Girl Press (Chicago) in early 2018.