Barbara Hamby

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

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.

• 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)

• 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

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