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Barbara Jane Reyes
American poet (born 1971)
Barbara Jane Reyes is an American poet whose work "explores the translatable and untranslatable collisions of writing, self and culture."[1]
Early life
Reyes was born in Manila, Philippines, and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area.
She received her B.A. in Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley. As an undergraduate, Reyes "served as editor in chief for maganda magazine, and witnessed the emergence of Filipino American literary figures."[2] Reyes received her M.F.A.
at San Francisco State University.
Career
Reyes is the author of Gravities of Center (Arkipelago, 2003), Poeta en San Francisco (Tinfish, 2005), for which she received the James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets,[3] and Diwata (BOA Editions, Ltd., 2010).
Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous publications, including 2nd Avenue Poetry, Asian Pacific American Journal, Boxcar Poetry Review, Chain, C