Ros Barber is the author of two collections of poetry with Anvil.
Born in Washington DC, raised in Colchester, trained as a biologist
and having worked in IT as systems analyst and computer programmer,
she now lives in Brighton, where she writes full time.
Noted for her engaging performances, Ros has appeared on Radio 4’s Poetry Please and Radio 3’s The Verb (including Ian MacMillan’s Pick of the Year). Her Embassy Court sonnets (commissioned for Architecture Week 2002 and published in How Things Are on Thursday) were featured in Meridian TV’s arts programme The Frame and published in the Independent on Sunday; her sonnets for Herne Bay (commissioned by Canterbury City Council & widely distributed as postcards) have also been featured in the Guardian and recorded for the Oxfam Lifelines 2 CD.
Among numerous public art commissions, Ros has been poet in residence at Arts Council England and the Gulbenkian-winning Pallant House Gallery. Her poetry has been published in anthologies published by Faber, Virago & Seren; her short fiction in Bloomsbury & Serpents Tail Anthologies. Her latest collection, Material (Anvil, 2008) is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. She is currently writing a verse novel about Christopher Marlowe, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
You can follow Ros on Twitter at www.twitter.com/rosbarber