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]

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Career

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]

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  2. ↑ "First, Second Generation Immigrant Poets Make Their Voices Heard". Voice of America . October 29, 2009. Retrieved September 8, 2020.
  3. 1 2 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. 1 2 "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. 1 2 "Barbara Tran". Poetry Foundation. April 25, 2017. Retrieved September 8, 2020.
  9. 1 2 "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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