title: Barbara Sumner
text: # Barbara Sumner
  
  Barbara Sumner (born 1960) is a New Zealand writer and film producer. Tree of Strangers, her memoir of adoption, loss and discovery, was published by Massey University Press in September 2020.
  
  She co-founded the film production company Cloud South Films with her husband Thomas Burstyn, and has served as a writer for The New Zealand Herald.
  
  