Barbara Jane Reyes was born in Manila,
Philippines and raised in the San Francisco Bay
Area. She received her undergraduate education at
UC Berkeley, and her MFA at San Francisco State
University. She is the author of Gravities of
Center (Arkipelago Books Publishing, 2003) and
Poeta en San Francisco (Tinfish Press, 2005), for
which she received the James Laughlin Award of
the Academy of American Poets.

Reyes is a recent Pushcart Prize nominee, and her
poems, reviews, and essays have appeared or are
forthcoming in numerous publications, including
2nd Avenue Poetry, American Poet: The Journal of
the Academy of American Poets, Achiote Press,
Action Yes, Asian Pacific American Journal, Blue
Fifth Review, Boxcar Poetry Review, Chain, Crate,
Interlope, Liwanag, Maganda Magazine, MiPoesias,
New American Writing, Nocturnes Review, North
American Review, Notre Dame Review, Octopus
Magazine, Parthenon West Review, Shampoo Poetry,
The Drunken Boat, Tinfish, Traffic, Versal, XCP:
Cross Cultural Poetics, as well as in the
anthologies Babaylan (Aunt Lute, 2000), Eros
Pinoy (Anvil, 2001), InvAsian: Asian Sisters
Represent (Study Center Press, 2003), Going Home
to a Landscape (Calyx, 2003), Coloring Book
(Rattlecat, 2003), Not Home But Here (Anvil,
2003), Pinoy Poetics (Meritage, 2004), Asian
Americans in the San Francisco Bay Area (Avalon
Publishing, 2004), 100 Love Poems: Philippine
Love Poetry Since 1905 (University of the
Philippines Press, 2004), The Lambda Award
finalist Red Light: Superheroes, Saints and Sluts
(Arsenal Pulp, 2005), Graphic Poetry (Victionary,
2005), The First Hay(na)ku Anthology (Meritage,
2005), Bay Poetics (Faux Press, 2006), Zoland
Poetry: An Annual of Poems, Translations, and
Interviews ö Volume One (Zoland, 2007), and
Cheers to Muses: Contemporary Works by Asian
American Women (Asian American Women Artists
Association, 2007).

She has served as a Coal Royalty Chairholder in
Creative Writing at University of Alabama at
Tuscaloosa, and as a visiting writer and lecturer
at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, under a
grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. She
is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative
Writing at Mills College, and she lives with her
husband, poet Oscar Bermeo, in Oakland, CA. Her
author website is http://barbarajanereyes.com.