Barbara Burgess, born in Paris, France, has been writing poems and stories since she was four. When she was an infant, the Burgess family relocated to Montreal, Canada, where she grew up. A Montrealer, now based on the West Island of Montreal, she is a McGill University graduate in English literature. A member of the Quebec Writers Federation, Burgess is a copy editor, a freelance book publicist for Canadian authors, and an English and history teacher. Her first book (The Magic Manuscript: Book One – Voyage to Eve Ilion was published traditionally in the USA by Piraeus Books LLC in 2011. Burgess's articles have been published in QWF Writes, The Anglican Journal, and The Quebec-Chronicle Telegraph, and Writing Edge Magazine. Since 2013, she has published four books (historical fantasy) in the Cacouna Saga, several children's books, and a mythic novella IDUN'S TALE: A STORY OF A SURVIVOR OF THE MEDIEVAL PLAGUE.

In 2017, Barbara Burgess was interviewed live in studio in Quebec City by Saroja Coehlo for CBC “Breakaway” about her novel The Cacouna Caves and the Hidden Mural. She was interviewed by Sonali Karnal for CBC “All in a Weekend” in 2015. In 2012, she appeared on the television program “Meetings with Remarkable People” that aired on Canada’s Super Station NTV to discuss her first published novel The Magic Manuscript: Book One - Voyage to Eve Ilion.
 
The author has done a half dozen book launches at the following venues: the Baie d’Urfé Library, the Atwater Library, the Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue Library, and Banyen Books in Vancouver. Her lectures included a Q & A relevant to issues treated in her historical fiction novels set in Cacouna, Quebec, issues such as the indigenous people of the Lower Saint Lawrence region, climate change, the provincial protests against marine oil terminals, the protection of the Saint Lawrence River, and the preservation of endangered marine life (especially the beluga whales) in the Lower Saint Lawrence region of Quebec.