Rosalind Barber^[1] (born 1964) is an English novelist, poet and academic.^[2]

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.^[3]

Barber has worked as a computer programmer.^[4]

Barber's first novel, The Marlowe Papers (2012), is written in blank verse. She subscribes to the Marlovian theory of Shakespeare authorship.^[5][6] In the book, Marlowe's death is a ruse and he writes plays in Shakespeare's name. The book won the Desmond Elliott Prize^[7] and the Authors' Club First Novel Award.^[8] Her second novel, Devotion (2015),^[9] was shortlisted for the Encore Award.^[10]

Barber made an appearance at the Brighton Fringe in 2012.^[11][12] She and Nicola Haydn wrote a one-man stage adaptation of The Marlowe Papers performed in 2016.^[13][14]

Of Barber's three volumes of poetry, Material (2008) was a Poetry Book Society recommendation.^[10] 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.^[15]

As of 2021, Barber lectures in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Goldsmiths, University of London.^[16]

She won the Hoffman Prize in 2011, 2014 and 2018.^[17][18][1]