Barbara Hamby (born in New Orleans, Louisiana) is a poet known for her exuberant, formally inventive work that ranges across popular culture, travel, art, and language itself, often employing elaborate extended vocabulary and comic energy. She is a professor of English at Florida State University in Tallahassee. Her collections include Babel (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004), All-Night Lingo Tango (Pittsburgh, 2009), and Bird Odyssey (Pittsburgh, 2018). She has received the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, an NEA Fellowship, and the Donald Hall Prize in Poetry. With David Kirby, her husband, she has edited the anthology Seriously Funny: Poems About Love, Death, Religion, Art, Politics, Sex, and Everything Else (2010).