Barbara Goldberg

Barbara Goldberg, raised in Forest Hills, New York, graudated from Mount Holyoke College in philosophy. She is the author of four prize-winning books, most recently, The Royal Baker's Daughter, winner of the 2008 Felix Pollak Poetry Prize, selected by David St. John. Other books include Marvelous Pursuits, Cautionary Tales and Berta Broadfoot and Pepin the Short: A Merovinian Romance. Along with the Israeli poet Moshe Dor, she edited and translated After the First Rain: Israeli Poems on War and Peace, with a foreword by Shimon Peres; and Witter Bynner Award-winning The Stones Remember: Native Israeli Poetry. In addition, with Dor, she translated The Fire Stays in Red: Poems of Ronny Someck. Her work has appeared in Best American Poetry, the Gettysburg Review and the Paris Review. Awards include two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, grants from the Maryland State Arts Council, the Armand G. Erpf Award from Columbia University's Translation Center as well as national awards in fiction, feature writing and speechwriting. A former seniot speechwriter at AARPV, she is currently a visiting writer in American University's MFA program. She lives in Chevy Chase, Maryland.