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Amy Quan Barry (born Saigon) is an American poet and novelist. She is a recipient of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize.

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

Biography

She was raised in Danvers, Massachusetts, where she played on the Danvers High School field hockey team in the late 1980s.[1]

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.[2]

Her work has appeared in The Kenyon Review, The Missouri Review,[3] The New Yorker,[4] Southeast Review,[5] and Virginia Quarterly Review.[6]

Works

Novels

• When I'm Gone, Look for Me in the East. Penguin Random House. 2022. ISBN 978-1-524-74811-1[7][8]
• We Ride Upon Sticks. Penguin Random House. 2020. ISBN 978-1-524-74809-8[9][10]
• She Weeps Each Time You're Born. Random House. 2015. ISBN 978-0-307-91177-3. [11][12]

Poetry collections

• Loose Strife. University of Pittsburgh Press. 2015. Archived from the original on 2015-01-14. Retrieved 2015-01-13.[13]
• Water Puppets. University of Pittsburgh Press. 2011.
• Controvertibles. University of Pittsburgh Press. 2004. ISBN 978-0-8229-5860-4.
• Asylum. University of Pittsburgh Press. 2001. ISBN 978-0-8229-5769-0.

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

• 2012 PEN/Open Book, finalist, Water Puppets
• 2010 Donald Hall Prize in Poetry, Water Puppets

See also

• List of poets from the United States

References

External links

• University of Pittsburgh Press author page
• Poetry Foundation profile
• "She Weeps Each Time You're Born", NPR
• "Featured Poet: Quan Barry", Perihelion
• UW faculty page

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