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Barbara Cutrera is an American author. She released her first novel, In a Manner of Speaking, as an e-publication in July, 2012. She prefers not to be limited by writing in one genre and has written works in the mystery, fiction, and romance categories.

Biography
Cutrera, the daughter of a music teacher and a social worker, was born in 1967 in Alexandria, Louisiana. Her father was in the Air Force, and the family moved around the state several times before her parents divorced. She remained in Louisiana with her mother following the divorce and graduated from Louisiana State University with a Bachelor's degree in Political Science in 1989.

A voracious reader since childhood, Cutrera loved writing but had no plans to become an author. Always an honors student, she began working part-time at the age of thirteen in a nursery then was employed in bookstores and libraries until she graduated from college. After graduation, she worked in a law library for ten years. In 2004, she moved to southwest Florida with her husband and son and took a job as an accounts manager at a music store. A year later, she began working with the visually-impaired and continues to do so. Cutrera herself is visually-impaired and has Stargardts, a form of macular degeneration.

Writing Career
Cutrera began writing her first novel in 1998. That work, Over, Under, Across & Through, would become the initial book in her fiction trilogy, which also includes A Good Man's Life and Mercy. She then penned a mystery, In a Manner of Speaking, which is the first of her novels to be published. A romance called The Healer's Gift would follow. She has also written a romantic thriller entitled A Lovely Dream and another romance, Prim and Proper. She is currently working on a mystery tentatively called Lucky. She has written an award-winning short story entitled Clean as Cotton.

Cutrera plans to release Over, Under, Across & Through in November, 2012. Her other novels will be released at varying intervals as she continues to write.