Quan Barry

American poet and novelist

Quan Barry
Born	Saigon
Occupation	Writer
Period	2000–present
Genre	Poetry, literary fiction, plays

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]

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. ^[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]

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.^[22]
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, finalist, Water Puppets

References

^ ^a ^b "2021 New American Poetry Prize: Final Judge Quan Barry". New American Press. 2021-05-25. Retrieved 2023-05-04.
^ ^a ^b "Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize". web.mnstate.edu. Retrieved 2023-05-04.
^ "Barry, Amy Quan". English. 2017-09-12. Retrieved 2023-06-15.
^ Kittner, Gena (2022-02-07). "World traveling UW-Madison professor shares a new novel and play". Wisconsin State Journal. Retrieved 2023-06-15.
^ Casting a spell: Danvers native mixes witch history with field hockey in new novel
^ "Amy Quan Barry, English, UW-Madison". www.english.wisc.edu. Archived from the original on 7 September 2004. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
^ "The Missouri Review". 2000. Retrieved 1 January 2015.
^ Barry, Amy Quan (22 May 2000). "If, Then". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2020-12-20.
^ "Archived copy". southeastreview.org. Archived from the original on 25 July 2009. Retrieved 14 January 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^ "VQR » Issues". www.vqronline.org. Archived from the original on 9 November 2007. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
^ "Asylum". University of Pittsburgh Press. Retrieved 2023-05-04.
^ "Past Winners | The Society of Midland Authors". Retrieved 2023-05-04.
^ "National Endowment for the Arts Grant Brings Amy Quan Barry to Ellensburg". www.cwu.edu. March 29, 2017. Retrieved 4 May 2023.
^ Hong, Mai-Linh K. (2020), Perez, Richard; Chevalier, Victoria A. (eds.), ""The Deep Root Snapped": Reproductive Violence and Family Un/Making in Quan Barry's She Weeps Each Time You're Born", The Palgrave Handbook of Magical Realism in the Twenty-First Century, Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 483–501, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-39835-4_21, ISBN 978-3-030-39835-4, S2CID 226462796, retrieved 2023-05-04
^ "From the archives: Quan Barry on her debut novel, 'She Weeps Each Time You're Born'". MPR News. 2022-07-26. Retrieved 2023-12-13.
^ "'She Weeps Each Time You're Born' by Quan Barry - the Boston Globe". The Boston Globe.
^ Quinn, Annalisa (March 4, 2020). "Witchcraft, Field Hockey And 1980s Massachusetts Meet In 'We Ride Upon Sticks'". NPR.
^ Barry, Quan (2020). We ride upon sticks (First ed.). New York. ISBN 978-1-5247-4809-8. OCLC 1103536420.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^ "We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry: 9781524748098 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books". PenguinRandomhouse.com. Retrieved 2020-06-04.
^ Patrick, Bethanne (2022-03-03). "Review: A novelist of great range follows mismatched twins through Mongolia". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2023-12-13.
^ Young, Molly (February 22, 2022). "Twin Brothers on a Quest to Find a Reborn Spiritual Leader". New York Times.
^ Hamann, Dane (April 30, 2012). "Review of Water Puppets by Quan Barry". TriQuarterly.