Barbara Anne Cameron (August 20, 1938 – November 30, 2022) was a Canadian novelist, poet, screenwriter, short story and children's book writer.
[6] She began writing at a young age, "scribbling notes on toilet paper,"[7] and attended high school in Nanaimo, British Columbia.
(founded in 1969 by British Columbia Indian Homemakers' Association) and engaged her writing as a form of activism, winning a centennial play-writing contest for Windigo, a stage adaptation of a documentary poem about racism.
[11] One outcome of winning the contest was that the play toured the province and was performed by First Nations inmates in Matsqui Penitentiary, Abbotsford, British Columbia.
"[6][14] She wrote screenplays under her name at the time, Cam Hubert; Cameron later added novels and children's books to her body of work.
Printings of the book from 1993 onward credited Klopinum, a storyteller she claimed had given her permission to retell the story, but Cameron retained sole authorship, copyright, and royalties for the works.
[22] Cameron published 'A Short Story' in the 1981 'Lesbiantics' issue of Fireweed, a quarterly feminist publication, and has been recognised for foregrounding "the pleasure of women living together and the humour, for example, of a lesbian couple nailing the sign 'Women' over their outhouse".
"[24] Among other jobs, she worked as a student psychiatric nurse (1955–57), as a medical assistant with the Royal Canadian Air Force (1957–59), an instructor in creative writing at Malaspina College in Powell River, and writer in residence at Simon Fraser University, the institution that had declined her admission as a mature university student years earlier on the basis of insufficient high school credits.