Barbara Fischkin is an author, journalist and public relations communicator. Her three books were published by Scribner and Bantam Dell at Random House. She is writing a fourth book which reflects years of research meshed with personal experience, as the mother of a son with autism and the daughter of a woman born in a Ukrainian shtetl. THE DIGGER RESISTANCE (working title) is a historical novel set in Ukraine, Poland, Berlin and New York, 1915-present. The manuscript connects three heroic individuals who are unable to speak—and their mothers. Within the next two years Ms. Fischkin will be considering traditional publication versus platform serialization. Ms. Fischkin's first book MUDDY CUP: A DOMINICAN FAMILY COMES OF AGE IN A NEW AMERICA now has a long-awaited Spanish language translation, which will be published by the Dominican Studies Institute of the City College of New York. Ms. Fischkin has worked as an award-winning international and local journalist. She has held various high-level public relations positions, has considerable online writing experience and has taught journalism at three universities. As she works on final drafts of this novel, she is open to other remote editing and writing assignments and in-person higher education teaching opportunities. She is seeking to place an autism-related television pilot or feature film: BRAINS OF THE FAMILY. This would be the first such project to feature a character with nonspeaking autism. Its time is now.