Barbara Hamby’s fourth book of poems, All-Night Lingo Tango, will be published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in Spring 2009. Other books are Babel (Pittsburgh, 2004), The Alphabet of Desire (NYU, 1999) and Delirium (North Texas, 1995). She has poems and stories forthcoming or recently published in Verse, TriQuarterly, The Iowa Review, Guernica, and Shenandoah. She teaches in the creative writing program at Florida State.