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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]

Career

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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

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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]

Works

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  • Tran, Barbara (1993). "Love and Rice". The Antioch Review. 51 (1): 91. doi:10.2307/4612672. JSTOR 4612672.
  • Tran, Barbara (1997). "The Seamstress Cycle". Amerasia Journal. 23 (2): 171–176. doi:10.17953/amer.23.2.58q48hj603673135. ISSN 0044-7471.
  • Tran, Barbara (1997). "from 'Rosary'". Ploughshares. 23 (1): 187–193. ISSN 0048-4474. JSTOR 40354753.
  • Tran, Barbara; Truong, Monique T. D.; Luu, Truong Khoi, eds. (1998). Watermark: Vietnamese American Poetry and Prose. New York: Asian American Writers' Workshop. ISBN 1-889876-05-4. OCLC 39057048.
  • Tran, Barbara (2002). In the Mynah Bird's Own Words. Dorset, Vermont: Tupelo Press. ISBN 0-9710310-5-3. OCLC 52139675.[11] PEN/Open Book Award finalist.[8]
  • Tran, Barbara (2002). "Released". Mānoa. 14 (1): 49–50. ISSN 1045-7909. JSTOR 4230037.
  • Tran, Barbara (July 2002). "Spider: Life after 1975". The Women's Review of Books. 19 (10–11): 21. doi:10.2307/4023887. JSTOR 4023887.
  • Tran, Barbara, ed. (2004). "Introduction". Michigan Quarterly Review. 43 (4). hdl:2027/spo.act2080.0043.401. ISSN 0026-2420.
  • Tran, Barbara (August 21, 2006). "Imaginary Menagerie". The New Yorker. p. 68.
  • Tran, Barbara (2019). "Buttercups in Foil on the Windowsill". Ploughshares. 45 (4): 153. ISSN 0048-4474. JSTOR 26854701.

References

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  1. ^ Gelfant, Blanche H. (March 2004). The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story. Columbia University Press. pp. 39–. ISBN 978-0-231-11099-0. Retrieved August 11, 2011.
  2. ^ "First, Second Generation Immigrant Poets Make Their Voices Heard". Voice of America. October 29, 2009. Retrieved September 8, 2020.
  3. ^ a b Garvey, Hugh (November 17, 1998). "Notes from Underground". The Village Voice. Retrieved September 8, 2020.
  4. ^ Truong, Monique (2019). "The Pleasures of Not Being Lonely". The Georgia Review. Retrieved September 8, 2020.
  5. ^ a b "Barbara Tran". macdowell.org. MacDowell. Retrieved December 20, 2023.
  6. ^ "Barbara Tran". Lannan Foundation. Retrieved September 8, 2020.
  7. ^ "The Moon Is Broken: Photography from Poetry, Poetry from Photography". Williams College Museum of Art. 2007.
  8. ^ a b "Barbara Tran". Poetry Foundation. April 25, 2017. Retrieved September 8, 2020.
  9. ^ a b "Living Room by Barbara Tran". CBC Books. September 5, 2018.
  10. ^ Cassandra Drudi, "Canisia Lubrin, Danny Ramadan among 2024 Governor General’s Literary Award finalists". Quill & Quire, October 8, 2024.
  11. ^ Reviews of In the Mynah Bird's Own Words:
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