Barbara Louise Ungar

Barbara Louise Ungar is the author of five full-length poetry collections: Save Our Ship won Ashland Poetry Press's Snyder Award in 2018 and was named to Kirkus Reviews' Best Books of 2019. Immortal Medusa was named to Kirkus Reviews' Best  Books of 2015 and was co-winner of the Adirondack Center for Writing Poetry Award. Charlotte Brontë, You Ruined My Life was chosen for The Word Works' Hilary Tham Collection. The Origin of the Milky Way won the Gival Press Poetry Award, an Independent Publisher's Award, the Adirondack Center for Writing Poetry Award, and an Eric Hoffer Award. She is also the author of Haiku in English and several chapbooks. Her poems have appeared in many journals, including the Southern Indiana Review, Rattle, Salmagundi, The Minnesota Review, Cream City Review, Literary Review, Atticus Review, and The Nervous Breakdown. She has work forthcoming in Scientific American, Cutthroat, Gargoyle, and Modern Haiku. She has performed widely, including at the Dodge Poetry Festival, the Poetry Society of America, Poets' House, St. Mark's Poetry Project, Nuyorican Poets' Café, Center for Book Arts, Couplet, and Cornelia St. Café. A professor of English at the College of Saint Rose in Albany, NY, she lives in Saratoga Springs. For more information, please see www.barbaraungar.net.