Barbara Hamby (born 1952) is an American
poet
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, fiction writer, editor, and critic.
Life
She was born in
and raised in
Hawaii
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. 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
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, 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
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.
Awards and honors
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2010 Guggenheim Fellowship
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2010 Iowa Short Fiction Award
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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''
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Kate Tufts Discovery Award
The Kingsley and Kate Tufts Poetry Awards are a pair of American prizes based at Claremont Graduate University. They are given to poets for their collections of poetry written in the English language, by a citizen or legal resident alien of the U ...
(1996) for ''Delirium''
*
Norma Farber First Book Award The Norma Farber First Book Award is given by the Poetry Society of America "for a first book of original poetry written by an American and published in either a hard or soft cover in a standard edition during the calendar year". Poetry Society of A ...
(
Poetry Society of America
The Poetry Society of America is a literary organization founded in 1910 by poets, editors, and artists. It is the oldest poetry organization in the United States. Past members of the society have included such renowned poets as Witter Bynner, Ro ...
) for ''Delirium''
*Vassar Miller Prize for ''Delirium''
Bibliography
Poetry
;Collections
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*''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
''Research in Review'', Florida State University, Winter 2004. (Retrieved September 6, 2006)
External links
Mambo Cinema*
1952 births
Living people
20th-century American poets
20th-century American women writers
21st-century American women
American women academics
American women poets
Florida State University faculty
The New Yorker people
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