Jennifer Barber grew up in Massachusetts, attended Colby College in Maine, and studied medieval literature in England as a Rhodes Scholar. She received her MFA from Columbia University. A selection of her work appears in the anthology Take Three: 3, Agni New Poets Series; a selection also appears in the anthology Four Way Reader #2. She is founding and current editor of the literary journal Salamander, and has taught at Wellesley College, Bradford College, and the Harvard Extension School. She has lived in England, Canada, New York City, and Spain, and now lives with her husband and two children in Brookline, Mass. She received a Bruce P. Rossley New Voices Award in 1998.

About Rigging the Wind:

"In subjects ranging from the expulsion of the Jews in the fifteenth century to intimacies between contemporary lovers, we are made to feel our own needs and terrors expressed, our own cities left behind. These poems are transparent, yet everywhere reflect things and people darkly, in emergency."
—Jane Miller