Barbara Hamby has published seven books of poetry, most recently _Bird Odyssey_ and _On the Street of Divine Love: New and Selected Poems._ She was a 2010 Guggenheim fellow, and her book of linked stories, _Lester Higata’s 20th Century_, won the 2010 University of Iowa John Simmons Award and was published by the University of Iowa Press. She and her husband David Kirby edited the poetry anthology Seriously Funny. She teaches at Florida State University where she is distinguished university scholar.