J. T. Barbarese has been widely published in journals and magazines as varied as The Georgia Review and The New York Times. He is the author of two books of poems in the University of Georgia Press's Contemporary Poets Series, and the translator of Euripides's Children of Herakles for the University of Pennsylvania Press. His degrees are from Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and Temple University. He teaches at Rutgers University-Camden and lives in Philadelphia.