About the Author

Barbara Louise Ungar's most recent poetry collection, The Origin of the Milky Way, won the 2006 Gival Press Poetry Award, a Silver IPPY (Independent Publishers' Book Award), an Eric J. Hoffer award, and was a co-winner of the Adirondack Center for Writing Award for Best Book of Poetry 2007. She is also the author of Thrift, Sequel, and Haiku in English. She is an English professor at the College of Saint Rose in Albany, New York.