Barbara McCreary is a retired elementary school librarian, having worked in Henrico County Public Schools and Richmond Montessori School in Virginia. Since moving to Pine Knoll Shores, she has worked closely with The Friends of the Bogue Banks Public Library. She also enjoys her volunteer work at The History Museum of Carteret County and is writing a book about a young man coming of age on Shackleford Banks in the late 1800s.