Ros Barber


Rosalind Barber is an English novelist and poet. She is a university lecturer in English.

Academe

Ros Barber is currently a lecturer in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Goldsmiths, University of London.
She has a BSc in Biology, an MA in creative writing, the arts and education, and a PhD in English literature, all from the University of Sussex, near Brighton. She also has an Open University BA in English literature and philosophy. She has worked as a computer programmer. Barber has won the Hoffman Prize in 2011, 2014 and 2018.

Novels

Barber's first novel, The Marlowe Papers, is written in blank verse. Barber is a Marlovian, and in the book Marlowe's "death" is a ruse and he writes plays under Shakespeare's name. The book won the Desmond Elliott Prize and the Authors' Club First Novel Award. Her second novel, Devotion, was shortlisted for the Encore Award.
She made an appearance at the Brighton Fringe in 2012. Her own stage adaptation of The Marlowe Papers was performed in 2016.

Poetry

Barber is the author of three volumes of poetry. Material, was a Poetry Book Society recommendation. Its title poem, which also appears in the Faber anthology Poems of the Decade, is in England's school sixth-form syllabus as of 2017.

Novels