Barbara Hamby's sixth book of poems, Bird Odyssey, will be published in Spring 2018 by the University of Pittsburgh Press, which also published her last book On the Street of Divine Love: New and Selected Poems. Her poems have appeared in many magazines, including The New Yorker, Poetry, Ploughshares, and Yale Review. She has also edited an anthology of poems, Seriously Funny (Georgia, 2009), with her husband David Kirby. She teaches at Florida State University where she is Distinguished University Scholar.