Barbara Goldberg

Barbara Goldberg (born 1943) is an American poet, author, translator, and editor from Maryland.

Early life and education Goldberg grew up in Forest Hills, Queens> New York. She is a first generation American. Her parents were immigrants from Europe after fleeing from the Holocaust. The language her family spoke in their home was German. One of these awards was for a $20,000 literacy fellowship. She has also been a fellow at Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.

She has done readings and presented her works to several programs, organizations, and associations, including the American Literary Translators Association, Associated of Writers and Writing Programs, the International Monetary Fund, the Folger Shakespeare Library, and the Carter Center.

Her works have been included in several literacy publications, including Poetry, the Paris Review, the Harvard Review, the Gettysburg Review, Best American Poetry, and the American Poetry Review.

Awards Goldberg has received several awards for her writing. She received two PEN Syndicated Fiction Project Awards. In 2008, she received the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry for The Royal Baker’s Daughter. She also won the Valentin Krustev Award in translation for her work Transformation: The Poetry of Translation, the Witter Bynner Foundation Award for The Stones Remember, the Violet Reed Haas Poetry Prize for Marvelous Pursuits, and the Camden Poetry Award for Cautionary Tales. Her poem “Fortune’s Darling” won the Emily Dickinson Award.

Works

Poetry

Berta Broadfoot and Pepin the Short: A Merovingian Romance (1986), , OCLC 729771175 Cautionary Tales (1990), , OCLC 731523419 Marvelous Pursuits (1995), , OCLC 32538889 The Royal Baker's Daughter (2008), , OCLC 636803506 Transformation (2019), , OCLC 1084561966

Translations

The Fire Stays in Red: Poems by Ronny Someck (2002) translated by Goldberg and Israeli poet Moshe Dor, , OCLC 316869644 Scorched by the Sun, poems by Dor, , OCLC 930811146

Editor

The Stones Remember: Native Israeli Poetry (1991) edited by Dor, Goldberg, and Giora Lesham, , OCLC 23930833 The First Yes: Poems About Communicating (1996), , OCLC 35758082 Open Door: Selected Poems from Poet Lore, 1980-1996 (1996) by Roland Flint and edited by Goldberg, Philip K. Jason, and Geraldine Connolly, After the First Rain: Israeli Poems on War and Peace (1998) edited by Dor and Goldberg, , OCLC 37890562