Jennifer Barber’s poetry collections are Works on Paper (The Word Works, 2016, Tenth Gate Prize), Given Away (Kore Press, 2012), and Rigging the Wind (Kore Press, 2003, Kore Press First Book Prize). She used her time at MacDowell to work on a new collection of poems, many of which take the New Hampshire landscape as a starting point.
Her poems have appeared in several anthologies and in the Missouri Review, Poetry, Poetry Daily, the Harvard Divinity Bulletin, Orion, The New Yorker, December, and elsewhere, and her collection Given Away was translated into French by the poet Emmanuel Merle as Délivrances and published in France in 2018.
She has been a recipient of the Anna Davidson Rosenberg Award, a Heinrich Böll Cottage Residency, and a Residency at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.
She is the founding editor of Salamander, based at Suffolk University; she served as editor in chief from 1992 to 2018 and taught literature and creative writing at Suffolk from 2004 to 2018. She lives with her husband, the fiction writer and translator Peter Brown, in the Boston area.
Portrait by Zoe Brown
