Virginia Barrett is the author 0f six books of poetry including Between Looking (2019, Finishing Line Press), Crossing Haight (2018, Jambu Press) and I Just Wear My Wings (2013, Jambu Press). She is the editor of two anthologies of contemporary San Francisco poets OCCUPY SF—poems from the movement and Feather Floating on the Water—poems for our children (winner of an Acker Award). She edited Casita Poems, an anthology of alumni poets from the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation and was the lead designer for Light on the Walls of Life—a tribute anthology to Lawrence Ferlinghetti (2022, Jambu Press).

 

Her work has recently appeared in Writer’s Chronicle, Narrative, What Rough Beast, Roar: Literature and Revolution by Feminist People, Ekphrastic Review, Weaving the Terrain (Dos Gatos Press), and Poetry of Resistance: Voices for Social Justice (University of Arizona Press). She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and a Best of the Net prize. She has twice received a writer’s residency grant from the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of Taos, NM. A chapbook, Stars By Any Other Name, was a semi-finalist for the Frost Place Chapbook Competition sponsored by Bull City Press, 2017.

 

She holds an MFA in Writing from the University of San Francisco, an MAT in Art from Rhode Island School of Design, and a BA in English from the University of Virginia.