Barbara Ungar

Barbara Louise Ungar is the author of five full-length poetry collections. Save Our Ship won the Snyder Prize from Ashland Poetry Press and was named to Kirkus Reviews’ Best Books of 2019; it also won a Franklin Award from the Independent Book Publishers Association and was a Distinguished Favorite at the Independent Press Awards. Earlier books include Immortal Medusa and Charlotte Brontė, You Ruined My Life, both chosen for The Word Works Hilary Tham Competition; Thrift; and The Origin of the Milky Way, which won the Gival Press Poetry Award, an Independent Publisher's Award, the Adirondack Center for Writing Poetry Award, and a Hoffer Award. She is also the author of Haiku in English and several chapbooks. Her poems have appeared in many journals, including Rattle, The Comstock Review, Salmagundi, The Minnesota Review, Cream City Review, Literary Review, Atticus Review, and The Nervous Breakdown. She has work forthcoming in Scientific American, Cutthroat, and Gargoyle. Her work has been translated into Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Bulgarian. A professor of English at The College of Saint Rose, she lives in Saratoga Springs, New York. www.barbaraungar.net.