Quan Barry
American poet and novelist
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Amy Quan Barry (born Saigon) is a Vietnamese American poet, novelist, and playwright. She is a recipient of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize.[1][2] Barry is a Lorraine Hansberry Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.[3][4]
Quan Barry | |
|---|---|
| Born | Saigon |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Period | 2000–present |
| Genre | Poetry, literary fiction, plays |
Biography
She was raised in Danvers, Massachusetts, where she played on the Danvers High School field hockey team in the late 1980s.[5]
She graduated from the University of Michigan, with an MFA, and was a Wallace Stegner fellow at Stanford University and the Diane Middlebrook poetry fellow at the University of Wisconsin. She teaches at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.[6]
Her work has appeared in The Kenyon Review, The Missouri Review,[7] The New Yorker,[8] Southeast Review,[9] and Virginia Quarterly Review.[10]
In 2000, Barry's poetry book Asylum won the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the 2002 Society of Midland Authors' poetry award.[2][11][12] Barry spoke at an event hosted and sponsored by Central Washington University and the National Endowment for the Arts.[13] In 2021, Barry was the final judge for the 2021 New American Poetry Prize.[1]
Barry's writing touches on a variety of genres, including magical realism and speculative fiction.[14]
Works
Novels
- She Weeps Each Time You're Born. Random House. 2015. ISBN 978-0-307-91177-3. Archived from the original on 2014-12-31. Retrieved 2015-01-04. [15][16]
- We Ride Upon Sticks. Penguin Random House. 2020. ISBN 978-1-524-74809-8[17][18][19]
- When I'm Gone, Look for Me in the East. Penguin Random House. 2022. ISBN 978-1-524-74811-1 [20][21]
- The Unveiling. Grove Press. 2025-10-14. ISBN 978-0-8021-6535-0. [22][23]
Poetry collections
- Asylum. University of Pittsburgh Press. 2001. ISBN 978-0-8229-5769-0.
- Controvertibles. University of Pittsburgh Press. 2004. ISBN 978-0-8229-5860-4.
- Water Puppets. University of Pittsburgh Press. 2011.[24]
- Loose Strife. University of Pittsburgh Press. 2015. ISBN 9780822963295.
Anthologies
- Boller, Diane (2003). Diane Boller; Don Selby; Chryss Yost (eds.). Poetry daily: 366 poems from the world's most popular poetry website. Sourcebooks, Inc. pp. 482. ISBN 978-1-4022-0151-6.
- Ed Ochester, ed. (2007). American poetry now: Pitt poetry series anthology. University of Pittsburgh Press. ISBN 978-0-8229-4310-5.
- H.L. Hix, ed. (2008). New Voices: Contemporary Poetry from the United States. Irish Pages. ISBN 978-0-9544257-9-1.
Journals
- "If, Then". The New Yorker. May 2000.
- "Gnosticism". Ploughshares. Spring 2006. Archived from the original on November 4, 2007.
- "Structuralism". Ploughshares. Spring 2006. Archived from the original on November 4, 2007.
- "errata from the field: demographics", AGNI
- "mission statement, or the Saturday after Sinatra died", AGNI
- "The impulsive man acts with fierceness", Kenyon Review, April 2009 [permanent dead link]
- "Doug Flutie's 1984 Orange Bowl Hail Mary as Water into Fire ", Crossroads
- "Cruz del Condor", Linebreak
Awards and honors
- 2010 Donald Hall Prize in Poetry, Water Puppets
- 2012 PEN Open Book Award, finalist, Water Puppets