Jennifer Barber

Jennifer Barber’s collections of poetry are The Sliding Boat Our Bodies Made (Word Works, 2022); Works on Paper, recipient of the 2015 Tenth Gate Prize (Word Works, 2016); Given Away (Kore Press, 2012), and Rigging the Wind, recipient of the 2002 First Book Award (Kore Press, 2003). Her new collection of poems, A Prevalence of Angels, is forthcoming from Word Works in the fall of 2026. She is co-editor, with Fred Marchant and Jessica Greenbaum, of the anthology Tree Lines: 21st Century Poems (Grayson Books, 2022) and co-editor, with Linda Cutting and Tehila Lieberman, of Blood Moon, a posthumous collection of poems by Carol Dine (Cervena Barva Press, 2025).