Barbra Mathilde Ring (4 July 1870 – 6 May 1955) was a Norwegian novelist, short story writer, children's writer, biographer, memoirist, literary critic and theatre critic.

She made her literary début in 1904 with the girl's novel Babbens Dagbog.

Her children's books about "Peik" and other characters achieved great popularity.

[3] Her folkloric story "Itte no knussel" (from the story collection Fnugg) is also characterized as a little pearl,[4] and her novel Eldjarstad is named as her best work in this genre.

She married wholesaler Thorvald Kirsebom in 1890, and they had the daughter Gerda Ring in 1891.