Ros Barber

Rosalind Barber (born 1964) is an English novelist, poet and academic. Her work include Material, a collection of poetry, and the novel The Marlowe Papers.

Education She has a BSc in Biology, an MA in creative writing, the arts and education, and a PhD in English literature, all from the University of Sussex. Her PhD was completed in 2011 with a dissertation titled Writing Marlowe as writing Shakespeare. She also has an Open University BA in English literature and philosophy.

Barber has worked as a computer programmer.

Novels Barber's first novel, The Marlowe Papers (2012), is written in blank verse and was part of a PhD. She subscribes to the Marlovian theory of Shakespeare authorship, and is as of 2023 a director of research of the Shakespearean Authorship Trust. In 2013, she described herself as an "agnostic" on Marlowe as Shakespeare. and the Authors' Club First Novel Award. Her second novel, Devotion (2015), was shortlisted for the Encore Award.

Together with Nicola Haydn, she wrote a one-man stage adaptation of The Marlowe Papers performed in 2016.

Poetry Of Barber's three volumes of poetry, Material (2008) was a Poetry Book Society recommendation.

Academic position As of 2021, Barber lectures in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her appointment ended in 2024.

Awards and recognition She won the Hoffman Prize in 2011, 2014 and 2018. 2014 "Shortly he will forget to go" Hoffman Prize Barber's first marriage ended in her mid-thirties. She later remarried.