Barbara KamlerBarbara Kamler was born in New Jersey and has lived in Melbourne, Australia for over five decades. After publishing nine academic books and countless research essays, her heart turned to poetry. Leaving New Jersey (2016) is a memoir told in prose poery. Love, regardless (2022), a gallery of fourteen long-love portraits, is based on interviews but told in syllabic verse. Sophie (2024), her newest collection, is a multi-voiced narrative about Barbara's grandmother Sophie Kamler, who in 1907 at age fourteen fled the pogroms and poverty in Poland and ventured to the new world of New York City, alone. Read More Read Less