[1][7][8] She earned a Bachelor's degree at University of Illinois, where she was initiated into Alpha Gamma Delta,[9] and her J.D.

[3] She worked for a number of years as an attorney in firms in Chicago and New York, where she focused her practice on bankruptcy law.

[1] Barber describes how she had been writing, as a hobby, for years, but the decision she and her husband made to quit their jobs, and travel around the world, triggered her completion of Are You Sleeping.

Her novel focuses around a podcast host, whose investigations turns up evidence of a wrongful conviction.

[10] The Galesburg Register-Mail reported Barber's upcoming followup novel, Follow Me, will also be a mystery, revolving around social media.