Barbara Tran

Barbara Tran (born 1968) is an American-born poet living in Canada. ^{[1] [2]} She received a Pushcart Prize in 1997. ^[3]

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]

Works

• 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

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.^{[ dead link ]}
3. 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. "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. "Barbara Tran". Poetry Foundation. April 25, 2017. Retrieved September 8, 2020.
9. "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:
    • Journey, Anna (2006). "Chapbook Reviews II: Patty Paine, Cecily Parks, Barbara Tran, Catherine Pierce, and John Allman". Blackbird. 5 (2). ISSN   1540-3068.
    • Langworthy, Christian (Winter 2005). "In Barbara Tran's Own Words". Michigan Quarterly Review . 44 (1). hdl:2027/spo.act2080.0044.131. ISSN   1558-7266.
    • Lieberman, Kim-An (April 18, 2011). "For Poetry Month, Five Voices from the Vietnamese Diaspora". diaCRITICS. Retrieved September 8, 2020.
    • Sohn, Stephen Hong (February 16, 2010). "On the Small Press and Asian American Poetry: Tupelo Press". Lantern Review Blog. Retrieved September 8, 2020.

External links

• Official website