Barbara Crooker
Barbara Crooker has published poems in magazines such as Yankee, The Christian Science Monitor, and The Denver Quarterly; anthologies including Worlds in their Words: An Anthology of Contemporary American Women Writers (Prentice Hall) and Boomer Girls (University of Iowa Press); eleven chapbooks; and two full-length collections: Radiance, which won the Word Press First Book Award and was a finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize, and Line Dance, recently out from Word Press. She has received three Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowships in Literature, the W. B. Yeats Society of NY Prize (Grace Schulman, judge) and the Thomas Merton Poetry of the Sacred Award (Stanley Kunitz, judge).
