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
editShe 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
editNovels
edit- 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
edit- 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
edit- 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
edit- "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
edit- 2010 Donald Hall Prize in Poetry, Water Puppets
- 2012 PEN/Open Book, finalist, Water Puppets
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ 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.