Ros Barber

Rosalind Barber (born 1964) is an English novelist, poet and academic.

Education
She has a BSc in Biology, an MA in creative writing, the arts and education, and a PhD in English literature, all from the University of Sussex. She also has an Open University BA in English literature and philosophy.

Barber has worked as a computer programmer.

Novels
Barber's first novel, The Marlowe Papers (2012), is written in blank verse. She subscribes to the Marlovian theory of Shakespeare authorship. In the book, Marlowe's death is a ruse and he writes plays in Shakespeare's name. The book won the Desmond Elliott Prize and the Authors' Club First Novel Award. Her second novel, Devotion (2015), was shortlisted for the Encore Award.

Barber made an appearance at the Brighton Fringe in 2012. She and Nicola Haydn wrote a one-man stage adaptation of The Marlowe Papers performed in 2016.

Poetry
Of Barber's three volumes of poetry, Material (2008) was a Poetry Book Society recommendation. Its title poem, which also appears in the Faber anthology Poems of the Decade (2015), was in England's school sixth-form syllabus as of 2017.

Academic position
As of 2021, Barber lectures in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Awards
She won the Hoffman Prize in 2011, 2014 and 2018.

Novels

 * The Marlowe Papers (2012)
 * Devotion (2015)

Poetry

 * How Things Are on Thursday (2004)
 * Not the Usual Grasses Singing (2005)
 * Material (2008)

Non-fiction

 * 30 Second Shakespeare (2015)