Latinka, Barbara: - Barbara Latinka is a memoirist, poet, and trauma survivor who writes at the intersection of memory and magic. With a voice rooted in emotional honesty and lyrical clarity, her work explores childhood trauma, family estrangement, and the healing power of language. She is the author of the three-part memoir series Spells for Surviving a Haunted Childhood, a genre-defying collection told through poetic vignettes and ritual-like spells.Her other published works include Tiny Spells for Big Feelings, a spellbook children of all ages learning to process big emotions, and Keeper of the Light, a gentle easy reader that reimagines the author's ghost girl as a beacon of empathy and hope. They also created Create Your Own Grimoire: A Mindfulness Prompt Journal-a guided space for readers to reflect, reclaim, and cast their own healing narratives.Through her imprint, Haunted Light Productions, Barbara is committed to creating books that hold space for survivors, sensitive souls, and anyone who has ever felt invisible. Her stories speak to the shadowed parts of life-and offer language as a form of light.