Boyle, Barbara: - Barbara Boyle served for decades as an award-winning global creative director and executive vice president at Saatchi & Saatchi, Grey, and Lowe Advertising, creating commercials, ads, and stories for Procter & Gamble, Johnson & Johnson, and Anheuser Busch, among dozens of other worldwide marketers. A lifelong food and wine aficionado, she is a graduate of a professional cooking course at The Institute of Culinary Education in New York. Her fiction has also been published in Flash Fiction, Sky Island Journal, Star 82, and Ariel Chart. Barbara has lived in Paris, Frankfurt, and New York, and now resides in Piemonte, Italy, as well as San Francisco, California.