Jennifer Barber’s Rigging the Wind received the Kore Press First Book Award for 2002
and was published in 2003. Her forthcoming volume is titled Given Away. Her poems
have appeared in a number of anthologies and journals, including Take Three: 3, Agni
New Poet Series (Graywolf Press), Four Way Reader #2 (Four Way Books), After
Shocks: Poetry of Recovery for Life-Shattering Events (Santa Lucia Books), Upstreet,
Fulcrum, Field, Harvard Review, Heliotrope, Marlboro Review, Poems and Plays,
Shenandoah, Jewish Quarterly, Georgia Review, and Poetry.
She has been the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, a St. Botolph Grant-in-Aid and a
Bruce Rossley Emerging Voices Award, and received the 2008 Anna Davidson
Rosenberg Award.
She is founding and current editor of the literary journal Salamander, now in its
18th year. She teaches English and Creative Writing at Suffolk University in
Boston, Massachusetts.
