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Name
  
Barbara Hamby

Role
  
Poet


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Awards
  
Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada, The Kingsley and Kate Tufts Poetry Awards

Books
  
On the Street of Divine Lo, All‑Night Lingo Tango, The alphabet of desire, Lester Higata's 20th Cent, Babel

Education
  
Florida State University

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Barbara Hamby (born 1952) is an American poet, fiction writer, editor, and critic.

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Life

She was born in New Orleans and raised in Hawaii. Her poems have been printed in numerous publications and her first book of poetry, Delirium (1995), received literary recognition. She lives with her husband and fellow poet David Kirby in Tallahassee, Florida, where she is a writer-in-residence in the Creative Writing Program, and he a professor, both with the English Department at Florida State University.

Published works

  • Delirium: poems (Denton, Texas: University of North Texas Press, 1995, ISBN 1-57441-002-4, paperback ISBN 1-57441-003-2)
  • The Alphabet of Desire (New York: New York University Press, 1999, ISBN 0-8147-3597-5, paperback ISBN 0-8147-3598-3)
  • Babel: poems (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004, ISBN 0-8229-5859-7)
  • All-Night Lingo Tango: poems (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009, ISBN 0-8229-6017-6)
  • Seriously Funny: poetry anthologyedited with David Kirby (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2010, ISBN 0-8203-3569-X)
  • Lester Higata's 20th Century: stories (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2010, ISBN 1-58729-918-6)

    • Awards and honors

  • Vassar Miller Prize for Delirium
  • Norma Farber First Book Award (Poetry Society of America) for Delirium
  • Kate Tufts Discovery Award (1996) for Delirium
  • New York University Poetry Prize (1998) for The Alphabet of Desire
  • Donald Hall Prize in Poetry (Association of Writers and Writing Programs, 2003) for Babel
  • 2010 Iowa Short Fiction Award
  • 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship

    • Reviews

  • On the Street of Divine Love: New and Selected Poems, New York Journal of Books

    • References

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