Jennifer Barber’s most recent poetry collection is The Sliding Boat Our Bodies Made (The Word Works, 2022). Her poems have appeared widely in literary journals and magazines.
She is the founding editor of Salamander: a magazine for poetry, fiction, and memoirs, and she served as its editor-in-chief from 1992 to 2018. She was Scholar in Residence at Suffolk University from 2004 to 2018, teaching literature and creative writing courses, including poetry-writing workshops. She has also taught at Bradford College, the Brookline Adult and Community Education Program, and Wellesley College. She is available to teach single- or multiple-session poetry-writing workshops.