Barbara Ras (born 1949 in New Bedford, Massachusetts) is an American poet, translator and publisher.
Her most recent poetry collection is The Blues of Heaven (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021), which was preceded by The Last Skin (Penguin Books, 2010), One Hidden Stuff (Penguin Books, 2006), and her first collection Bite Every Sorrow (Louisiana State University Press, 1998).
She was Senior Editor acquiring environmental books for the University of Georgia Press.
She has traveled extensively in Latin America and lived for periods of time in Colombia and Costa Rica.
Her work has appeared in literary journals and magazines including The New Yorker, Boulevard, Massachusetts Review, Prairie Schooner, American Scholar, and Spoon River Poetry Review.