Barbara Gregorich grew up playing baseball and reading mysteries. As a result, SHE'S ON FIRST (Contemporary, 1987) was a baseball novel and DIRTY PROOF (Pageant, 1988) a mystery. But just in case the pitcher thinks he knows what Barbara will do when she stands on base, she enjoys unsettling him by writing nonfiction as well as fiction . . children's books as well as adult books . . . poetry, too. In addition to baseball, Barbara has long been part of movements supporting economic and political justice for all. Her first YA novel, THE F WORDS, which will be published by City of Light Publishing on September 1, 2021, centers on high school teens fighting for justice and equality. For more information about THE F WORDS, you can visit Barbara's newsletter at http://www.barbaragregorich.com/newsl.... For more information on the process of how she wrote THE F WORDS (naming characters, developing setting, increasing tension), visit her blog, Much to Write About, available on GoodReads.