Virginia Barrett Poetry

Virginia Barrett is a poet, writer, artist, editor, and educator. She earned her MFA in Writing from the University of San Francisco, where she was poetry editor of Switchback and studied with Shelley Memorial Award recipient D. A. Powell. She is also a graduate of the University of Virginia with a BA in English, where she was a student of Carolyn Forché and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Wright. Her seventh book of poems, The Vessels We Carry Keep Us Alive is forthcoming from Saint Julian Press. She has also written a travel memoir, Mbira Maker Blues—a healing journey to Zimbabwe. The editor of five poetry and art collections, including the Hue Are You anthology series, she has taught poetry, creative writing, and visual art throughout the San Francisco Bay Area for over three decades, including in the MFA in Writing program at the University of San Francisco.