| Anita
Barrows is a poet, teacher, psychologist,
translator, essayist, and novelist. She has published translations
from French, Italian, and German in Britain and America; translating
the work of Marguerite Duras, Helene Cixous, Julia Kristeva, Umberto
Saba, and Rainer Maria Rilke. Her translation of Rilke's Book of
Hours (Riverhead, l996) has sold over 25,000 copies to date. Barrows'
poetry includes The Road Past the View (Quarterly Review of Literature
Contemporary Poetry Series award winner, l992), and A Record (Riverstone
Press Award winner, l998). She has been awarded an NEA grant in
poetry as well as honors for individual poems (Robinson Jeffers
Awards, Americas Review awards, Nimrod Awards and others). Her poems
have appeared in journals and anthologies, such as The Nation, Bridges,
and Prairie Schooner, and she has received fellowships from the
Ragdale, Dorland, and Centrum Foundations. Barrows' prose nonfiction
appears in several Buddhist and ecological journals; she is currently
at work on a novel. Barrows has masters degrees in English and Italian
literature and a doctorate in psychology. She is in private practice
as a clinical psychologist specializing in the treatment of children
with neurodevelopmental disabilities, and she teaches at the Wright
Institute and at Naropa Institute West. |
