Barbara Louise Ungar’s most recent poetry collection, Charlotte Brontë, You Ruined My Life, was a 2009 finalist for the National Poetry Series and an SPD poetry bestseller in March, 2011, when it appeared from The Word Works. Her last book, The Origin of the Milky Way, won the 2006 Gival Press Poetry Award, the Adirondack Center for Writing Award for Best Book of Poetry 2007 (co-winner), a silver Independent Publishers Book Award, and an Eric Hoffer Notable for Poetry Award. She is also the author of Thrift (WordTech Editions 2005), and the chapbooks Sequel (Finishing Line Press 2004) and Neoclassical Barbra (Angel Fish Press 1998), as well as the monograph Haiku In English (Stanford 1978, reprinted in Simply Haiku 2007-9). A professor of English at the College of Saint Rose in Albany, she lives in Saratoga Springs, New York.

Charlotte Brontë, You Ruined My Life (The Word Works, 2011), The Origin of the Milky Way (Gival Press, 2007), Thrift (WordTech Editions, 2005)

Sequel (Finishing Line Press, 2004), Neoclassical Barbara (Angel Fish Press, 1998)