Barbara Daly (born 1939) is an American author of romance novels. She won the Romance Writers of America's RITA Award in 2002 for Best Short Contemporary Romance for her novel A Long Hot Christmas. She has also been twice nominated by Romantic Times for Reviewers' Choice Awards, for A Long Hot Christmas and Too Hot to Handle. Romantic Times described her Harlequin Duets novel Are You For Real as "fast-paced, fresh and funny".