Anita Barrows

Anita Barrows was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1947. She settled in the Bay Area during her college years and—except for some years spent in Boston and London—has been living there since. She has Masters' degrees in English Literature and Italian Literature and a PhD from the Wright Institute in psychology. She has been in private practice since 1988 and has taught at The Wright since 1987. She has won an NEA grant in poetry—among other awards—and has five published books of poems, two of which have won national awards. Her translations from the German of Rainer Maria Rilke, with Joanna Macy, have sold over 100,000 copies. She also translates from French and Italian. She has been a lifelong socialist and activist for social justice causes. Barrows has two grown daughters and a teenaged granddaughter and lives with a number of dogs, cats and birds. She plays the viola da gamba, sings renaissance music and spends a lot of time at Point Isabel, the dog park in Richmond, CA.