Barbara Goldberg

Barbara Goldberg authored six prize-winning books of poetry, including The Royal Baker’s Daughter, winner of the Felix Pollak Poetry Prize (University of Wisconsin Press). She and renowned Israeli poet Moshe Dor edited numerous anthologies of contemporary Israeli poetry including After the First Rain: Israeli Poems on War and Peace. Goldberg received two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts as well as awards from PEN’s Syndicated Fiction Project and Columbia University’s Translation Center. Her work appears in Best American Poetry, Paris Review, Poetry, The Gettysburg Review and elsewhere. She is Series Editor for the International Editions at The Word Works.Goldberg lives in Chevy Chase, Maryland.