Barbara Hamby

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

Life 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.

Awards and honors 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship 2010 Iowa Short Fiction Award 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 Kate Tufts Discovery Award (1996) for Delirium Norma Farber First Book Award (Poetry Society of America) for Delirium Vassar Miller Prize for Delirium