Barbara Hamby

Barbara Hamby has just finished her new book BURN. She is the author of seven other books of poems, most recently Holoholo (2021), Bird Odyssey (2018), and On the Street of Divine Love: New and Selected Poems (2014), all published by the University of Pittsburgh Press, which also published Babel (2004) and All-Night Lingo Tango (2009). She was a 2010 Guggenheim fellow in Poetry and her book of short stories, Lester Higata’s 20th Century (University Of Iowa Press, 2010), won the 2010 Iowa Short Fiction Award. Her poems have appeared in many magazines, including the New Yorker, Poetry, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Yale Review, and the New York Times. She teaches at Florida State University.