| Barbara Klar | |
| Birth Date: | 1966 |
| Birth Place: | Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada |
| Occupation: | poet |
| Period: | 1990s-present |
| Notableworks: | The Night You Called Me a Shadow |
Barbara Klar (born 1966 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian poet, who won the Gerald Lampert Award in 1994 for her poetry collection The Night You Called Me a Shadow.[1]
After completing high school, Klar took writing courses at Fort San before completing a degree in English at the University of Saskatchewan. She published poetry in literary magazines such as Grain, Border Crossings and Prairie Fire before The Night You Called Me a Shadow was published in 1993.[1] The book also won the Saskatchewan Writers Guild Poetry Award.[2]
She has since followed up with three further poetry collections, The Blue Field (1999),[1] Tower Road (2004)[3] and Cypress (2008).[4] Both The Blue Field and Cypress were shortlisted for the Saskatchewan Book Award.[2] She won a Joseph S. Stauffer Prize from the Canada Council in 2004.