Barbra Nightingale has had over 100 poems accepted for or published in numerous poetry journals and anthologies, such as Calyx, Kalliope, Many Mountains Moving, Birmingham Review, Chatahoochee Review, Liberty Hill Poetry Journal, Florida in Poetry, The MacGuffin, Crosscurrents, The Kansas Quarterly, Cumberlands Poetry Journal, Passages North, The Florida Review, The Palmetto Review, The South Florida Poetry Review, Coydog Review, Red Light/Blue Light, Voices International, Visions International, Teaching English in the Two-Year College, and The Poet.
Singing in the Key of L, her first full length collection, won the 1999 Stevens Poetry Manuscript Award and was published by the National Federation of Poetry Societies (June, 1999). She has had four chapbooks published, Lovers Never Die (1981), Prelude to a Woman (1986), and Lunar Equations (1993), and Greatest Hits (1980-2000), PuddingHouse Press, 2000.
Barbra Nightingale holds a doctoral degree in Higher Education and is Professor of English at Broward Community College, South campus, Florida, where she was awarded the 1997 James L. Knight Endowed Teaching Chair.