Jennifer Barber, MFA

Assistant Professor
Department of English
Editor-in-Chief, Salamander

Phone: 617-305-1919
Fax: 617-305-1744
Email: jbarber@suffolk.edu
Office: Fenton Building, Rm. 328

Education

  • MFA, Columbia University
  • MA, Oxford University
  • BA, Colby College

Research Interests

  • Contemporary poetry and fiction
  • 20th- and 21st-century literary journals
  • American literature

Selected Employment History

Founding Editor and Editor-in-Chief of Salamangder: a magazine for poetry,fiction, & memoirs  1992-present 
Assistant Professor, Suffolk University 2005-2006 
Visiting Assistant Professor, Suffolk Univeristy  2004-2005 
Visiting Assistant Professor, Wellesley College  2000-2001 
Visiting Assistant Professor, Bradford College  1999-2000 

Other Teaching and Publishing

Creative Writing, Harvard Extension School

Instructor of Creative Writing and Literature at the Brookline Adult & Community Education Program

Publishing jobs include editing, production editing, and copyediting for a variety of organizations and publishers in Boston and New York, among them Longman Inc., Houghton Mifflin, Columbia University Publications Office, Warren, Gorham & Lamont, and the Harvard University Art Museums.

Honors

Salamander has been the recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses, Bradford College, and the Brookline Council on the Arts and Humanities.

Jennifer Barber received a 2005 St. Botolph Club Foundation Grants-in-Aid award for poetry and poetry in translation and was the recipient of a 2004 Pushcart Prize; she received a Bruce Rossley New Voices Award in 1998.

Publications

Rigging the Wind, a poetry collection, received the 2002 Kore Press First Book Award and was published in 2003 by Kore Press.

Vendaval, a selection of poems, appeared in Take Three: 3, Agni New Poets Series (Graywolf Press, 1998).

Poems have been published in a number of literary journals, including Field, Georgia Review, Poetry, Fulcrum, Shenandoah, Partisan Review, Harvard Review, The Journal, Heliotrope, Massachusetts Review, and Orion.

Links

Salamander

Kore Press

Courses Taught

ENG 101 - Freshman English I
ENG 102 - Freshman English II
ENG 103 - Advanced Freshman English
ENG 215 - American Literature
ENG 372 - The Literary Journal
ENG 375 - Poetry Writing Workshop I
ENG 475 - Poetry Workshop II