Barbara Tomash is the author of two books of poetry, Flying in Water which won the 2005 Winnow First Poetry Award and The Secret of White from Spuyten Duyvil (2009). Her poems have appeared in Colorado Review, New American Writing, VOLT, Jacket, ZYZZYVA, Parthenon West Review, Third Coast, Five Fingers Review and numerous other journals. She lives in Berkeley, California and teaches in the Creative Writing Department at San Francisco State University.