Barbara Hamby (born 1952) is an American poet, fiction writer, editor, and critic.
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.
Awards and honors
2010 Guggenheim Fellowship
2010 Iowa Short Fiction Award
Donald Hall Prize in Poetry (Association of Writers and Writing Programs, 2003) for Babel New York University Poetry Prize (1998) for The Alphabet of Desire Kate Tufts Discovery Award (1996) for Delirium Norma Farber First Book Award (Poetry Society of America) for Delirium Vassar Miller Prize for Delirium
Bibliography
Poetry
Collections
The Alphabet of Desire (New York: New York University Press, 1999, , paperback ) Babel: poems (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004, ) All-Night Lingo Tango: poems (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009, ) On the Street of Divine Love: New and Selected Poems (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014, ) Bird Odyssey (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018, ) Holoholo (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021, ISBN 9780822966586) Anthologies (edited) Seriously Funny: poetry anthology edited with David Kirby (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2010, ) List of poems
Short fiction
Collections
Lester Higata's 20th Century: stories (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2010, )
Critical studies and reviews of Hamby's work
On the Street of Divine Love
On the Street of Divine Love: New and Selected Poems, New York Journal of Books
References
"Poet of Pop", Research in Review, Florida State University, Winter 2004. (Retrieved September 6, 2006)