Barbara Rockman

Barbara Rockman

Barbara Rockman came to poetry after careers as a director, stage manager, dramatic arts teacher, arts education consultant and curriculum designer. Mother of two grown daughters, her poems honor the gritty tales of motherhood, marriage and family. Her lyric essays intersect the political, personal, and natural worlds.  Her work appears in Bellingham Review, Calyx, Cimarron Review, Louisville Review, and Nimrod among others and has received the Baskerville Publisher’s Prize, New Mexico Discovery Award, Southwest Writers’ Prize, The MacGuffin National Poet Hunt, Persimmon Tree Prize and two Pushcart nominations. She has been selected twice as an Associate Resident Artist at Atlantic Center for the Arts.  Barbara earned her MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts and her M.Ed. from Antioch New England.  Her collection, “Sting and Nest,” won the 2012 New Mexico-Arizona Book Award and the 2012 National Press Women’s Book Prize. She teaches writing at Santa Fe Community College, with homeless families and victims of domestic violence through Wingspan Poetry Project, and in private workshops in Santa Fe, New Mexico where she lives with her husband. Honorary Contributor