BARBARA HAMBY, Writer-in-Residence, MA, Florida State Univeristy (1981), specializes in poetry. Her first full-length book, Delirium, won the Vassar Miller Prize, the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and the Poetry Society of America's Norma Farber First Book Prize. Her second book, The Alphabet of Desire, won the New York University Prize for Poetry and was chosen by the New York Public Library as one of the 25 best books of 1999. Her third book, Babel, was chosen by Stephen Dunn for the 2003 AWP/Donald Hall Prize. Her poems have appeared in Best American Poetry 2000, Pushcart Prizes 2001, The Paris Review, The Iowa Review, The Kenyon Review and many other magazines. She has won three fellowships from the Florida Arts Council and one from the National Endowment for the Arts.

BOOKS

• All-Night Lingo Tango (forthcoming in Spring 2009 from University of Pittsburgh Press).
• Babel, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004.
• The Alphabet of Desire, New York University Press, 1999.
• Delirium, University of North Texas Press, 1995.
• Skin (chapbook), Silverfish Review Press, 1995.
• Eating Bees (chapbook), New Sins Press, 1992.

IN ANTHOLOGIES

• American Poetry Now: Pitt Poetry Series Anthology, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007.
• "Ode to American English," Poetry: An Introduction, Michael Meyer, Bedford/St. Martins, 2007.
• "Babel," "Attention, Citizen Sade," and "The Tawdry Masks of Women," Deep Travel: Contemporary American Poets Abroad, Ninebark Press, 2007.
• "I Beseech Thee, O Yellow Pages," Poetry Calendar 2007, July 7, Alhambra Publishing, Belgium.
• "Ode to My 1977 Toyota" and "Ode to American English," Good Poems for Hard Times, Selected and Introduced by Garrison Keillor, New York: Viking, 2006.
• "Kamehameha Drive-in, 25 Years Later," Twenty Poems to Nourish Your Soul, selected and introduced by Judith Valente and Charles Reynard, Chicago: Loyola Press, 2005.
• "Ode to Italian Fruit," Sustenance & Desire: A Food Lover's anthology of Sensuality and Humor, edited with paintings by Bascove, Boston: Godine, 2004.
• "Delirium," The Paris Review Book of Heartbreak, Madness, Sex, Love Betrayal, Outsiders, Intoxication, War, Whimsy, Horrors, God, Death, Dinner, Baseball, Travels, The Art of Writing, and Everything Else in the World Since 1953, New York: Picador, 2003.
• "Achtung, My Princess, Goodnight," The Poets' Grimm: Twentieth Century Poems for Grimm Fairy Tales, edited by Jeanne Marie Beaumont & Claudia Carlson, Story Line Press, 2003.
• "Ode to Money," Sweet Jesus: Poems about the Ultimate Icon, edited by Nick Carbó and Denise Duhamel, [the anthology press]: Los Angeles, California, 2002.
• "Invention," "Mr. Pillow," and "Beriberi," Stand Up Poetry: An Expanded Anthology, edited by Charles Harper Webb, University of Iowa Press: Iowa City, 2001.
• "Yellow Fever," The Pushcart Prize XXVI, edited by Bill Henderson, Pushcart Press/W.W. Norton: New York, 2002.
• "Reichsfuhrer Blues," Ohio Review: New & Selected-30th Anniversity Issue, Volume I, A-L (2001), pp. 315-316.
• "The Lost Luggage Warehouse at the Rome Airport," Best American Poetry 2000, edited by Rita Dove and David Lehman, Scribners, New York.
• "So Long, Roy," Washington Post Book World: Poet's Choice, Sunday, July 9, 2000. Editor, Rita Dove.
• "St. Clare's Underwear," Real Things: An Anthology of Popular Culture in American Poetry, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN, 1998.
• Six appearances on The Writer's Almanac ("Ode to Hardware Stores," "Thus Spake the Mockingbird," "Ode to My 1997 Toyota," "Vex Me," "Ode To American English," and "Achtung, My Princess, Goodnight."
• Six appearances on www.poems.com ("Some Days I Feel Like Janet Leigh in Touch of Evil"; "My Translation," "Attention, Citizen Sade," and "Ode to My Waist"; "Ode on Satan's Power"; "Left-Bank Freudian Striptease"; "Idolatry"; "Six, Sex, Say")
• Three appearances on Verse Daily ("Ode on Satan's Power, "Thus Spake the Mockingbird," "Tongues.")

HONORS

• AWP/Donald Hall Prize for Poetry. Final judge Stephen Dunn, 2003.
• James Dickey Prize for Poetry from Five Points, 2002.
• "Yellow Fever" included in the Pushcart Prize anthology, 2001.
• The Alphabet of Desire chosen by The New York Public Library as one of the 25 best books of 1999, 2000.
• "Ode to the Lost Luggage Warehouse in the Rome Airport" chosen by Rita Dove to be included in The Best American Poetry 2000.
• Winner of the Nantucket Short Play Award for "Mrs. Kaneshiro Sees God," co-written with David Kirby, 1999.
• New York University Prize for Poetry for The Alphabet of Desire. Final judge was Terese Svoboda. 1998
• Fellowship in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts, 1996.
• Kate Tufts Discovery Prize for the best first book of poetry published in 1995 for Delirium, 1996.
• Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America for Delirium. The final judge was Thylias Moss. 1996
• Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry for Delirium. Cynthia Macdonald was final judge. 1994
• Gerald Cable Poetry Chapbook Prize for Skin, 1994.
• Grant from New Forms Florida sponsored by the Florida Dance Association for a collaborative project with visual artist Stuart Riordan. The grant was funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, the Warhol Foundation and the NEA. 1994
• "Mrs. Kaneshiro Sees God," a short story, was chosen to be part of the PEN/NEA Syndicated Fiction Project. It was broadcast on National Public Radio on "The Sound of Writing." 1993
• Three Individual Artist Grants from the Florida Arts Council, 1982, 1988, 1997.