Jennifer Barber

Jennifer Barber’s two most recent poetry collections are Given Away (Kore Press, 2012) and Rigging the Wind (Kore Press, 2003), winner of Kore’s First Book Award. Her poems have appeared in a number of journals and magazines, including The New Yorker, Poetry, the Gettysburg Review, the Harvard Divinity Bulletin, Verse Daily, Orion, Jewish Quarterly, and the Missouri Review. Founding and current editor of the literary journal Salamander, now in its twenty-third year, she teaches literature and creative writing at Suffolk University in Boston, Massachusetts. She has been the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and an Anna Davidson Rosenberg Award and is the translator of Ici en exil, a volume by poet Emmanuel Merle; individual translations from that collection will appear in the Massachusetts Review, Modern Poetry in Translation, Upstreet, and Metamorphoses. Her new collection, Works on Paper, received the 2015 Tenth Gate Prize from The Word Works and will be published in 2016.