Publisher/Editor Barbara Baird is a freelance writer in travel and outdoor markets.
Before The WON she worked as a newspaper and then magazine editor. She contributes a column “Out West” to Turkey Country magazine and writes two columns for Show Me Missouri magazine. She writes “Babbs in the Woods” at The WON, is a new contributing editor at Shot Business magazine and contributes to Kenn Blanchard’s Black Man with a Gun Podcast – with weekly updates about women and guns. Her bylines have appeared in America’s 1st Freedom, Fly Fisherman, AAA publications, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Columbia (Mo.) Tribune, Springfield (Mo.) News-Leader, SHOT Business, SHOT Daily, GunUp.com and a host of other magazines and newspapers.
When not looking for the next story, she can be found fishing, hunting, hiking, kayaking, shooting or whomping up a wild game meal.
Barbara and her husband, Jason, teach NRA handgun courses at their local range near Rolla, Mo. See www.sheshoots2.com.
She is delighted to be included on the Proís Hunting Apparel’s pro staff.
She is available as a speaker or to conduct workshops on the following topics: women in the outdoors, the women’s outdoor market, traveling Missouri and blogging. Contact her here at The WON.











