J. T. Barbarese

Poet, translator, and editor J.T. Barbarese earned a BA at Franklin & Marshall College and a PhD at Temple University. His books of poetry include Sweet Spot (2012); A Very Small World (2005); The Black Beach (2005), which won the Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry; New Science (1989); and Under the Blue Moon (1985). His translations include Euripides’s The Children of Heracles (1999) for the Penn Greek Drama Series. Since 2008, he has been the editor of StoryQuarterly.

Barbarese’s poems, criticism, and short fiction have been published widely in magazines and journals such as Poetry Northwest, the Denver Quarterly, the Atlantic, the Journal of Modern Literature, the Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine, the North American Review, and elsewhere. He is an associate professor of English at Rutgers University–Camden, where he is also on the faculty of the MFA program.