Barbara Tran
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Barbara Tran (born 1968) is an American-born poet living in Canada.[1][2] She received a Pushcart Prize in 1997.[3]
Born in New York City,[4] Tran received her BA from New York University and her MFA from Columbia University.[5] She coedited the anthology Watermark: Vietnamese American Poetry and Prose (Asian American Writers' Workshop, 1998) and guest edited Viet Nam: Beyond the Frame, a special issue of Michigan Quarterly Review (Fall 2004).
She is the recipient of a Lannan Foundation Writing Residency,[6] Bread Loaf Writers' Conference Scholarship,[citation needed] MacDowell Colony Fellowship,[5] and Pushcart Prize,[3] and is featured in filmmaker Yunah Hong's documentary Between the Lines: Asian American Women's Poetry.[citation needed]
Her poems have appeared in the Women's Review of Books, Ploughshares, and The New Yorker, as well as in the Williams College Museum of Art exhibit The Moon Is Broken: Photography from Poetry, Poetry from Photography.[7]
Tran's first poetry collection, In the Mynah Bird's Own Words (Tupelo Press, 2002), was selected by Robert Wrigley as the winner of Tupelo Press's chapbook competition,[citation needed] and was a PEN/Open Book Award finalist.[8]
In fall 2015, Tran was a writer-in-residence at Hedgebrook. She lives in Toronto.[9]
Awards and honors
Tran is a recipient of a Research and Creation grant and a Professional Development for Artists grant from the Canada Council, as well as a Literary Creation Project grant from the Ontario Arts Council.[citation needed]
She was longlisted for the 2018 CBC Nonfiction Prize.[9]
Precedented Parenting was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry at the 2024 Governor General's Awards.[10]
