Barbara Lau

BARBARA LAU has spent most of her life in San Antonio and Austin, Texas, where she worked as a magazine writer and publications director. She now teaches English and creative writing at Cornell College in Mt. Vernon, Iowa. She holds an MFA in poetry from Warren Wilson and an MA in English from the University of Illinois. Her poetry has appeared in Field , Spoon River Poetry Review , Karamu , Southern Poetry Review , Poet Lore , Iron Horse Literary Review , and other journals, plus the anthology...See more

BARBARA LAU has spent most of her life in San Antonio and Austin, Texas, where she worked as a magazine writer and publications director. She now teaches English and creative writing at Cornell College in Mt. Vernon, Iowa. She holds an MFA in poetry from Warren Wilson and an MA in English from the University of Illinois. Her poetry has appeared in Field , Spoon River Poetry Review , Karamu , Southern Poetry Review , Poet Lore , Iron Horse Literary Review , and other journals, plus the anthology When I Grow Old I Shall Wear Purple . She lives with her husband, composer and jazz guitarist Don Chamberlain, and daughters Grace and Lily. The Long Surprise is her first book of poetry. See less