Barbara Rockman’s poems appear in Bellingham Review, Calyx, Cimarron Review, Louisville Review, and Nimrod and have received the Baskerville Publisher’s Prize, New Mexico Discovery Award, Southwest Writers’ Prize, The MacGuffin National Poet Hunt Prize, the Persimmon Tree Poetry Prize and two Pushcart Prize nominations. Her collection, “Sting and Nest,” won the 2012 New Mexico-Arizona Book Award and the 2012 National Press Women’s Book Prize. Rockman teaches writing at Santa Fe Community College and in private workshops in Santa Fe where she lives with her husband.

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