Quan Barry Explained

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.^{[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.

Barry's writing touches on a variety of genres, including magical realism and speculative fiction.

Works

Novels

• Book: She Weeps Each Time You're Born. Random House. 2015. 978-0-307-91177-3. ^{[14] [15]}
• We Ride Upon Sticks. Penguin Random House. 2020. ^{[16] [17] [18]}
• When I'm Gone, Look for Me in the East. Penguin Random House. 2022. ^{[19] [20]}

Poetry collections

• Book: Asylum. University of Pittsburgh Press. 2001. 978-0-8229-5769-0. registration.
• Book: Controvertibles. University of Pittsburgh Press. 2004. 978-0-8229-5860-4 .
• Book: Water Puppets. University of Pittsburgh Press. 2011. ^[21]
• Book: Loose Strife . University of Pittsburgh Press . 2015 . 9780822963295 .

Anthologies

• Book: Poetry daily: 366 poems from the world's most popular poetry website. Diane Boller . Don Selby . Chryss Yost. Sourcebooks, Inc.. 2003. 978-1-4022-0151-6. 482. Boller, Diane. registration.
• Book: American poetry now: Pitt poetry series anthology. Ed Ochester. University of Pittsburgh Press. 2007. 978-0-8229-4310-5 .
• Book: New Voices: Contemporary Poetry from the United States . H.L. Hix . H.L. Hix . . 2008. 978-0-9544257-9-1.

Journals

• If, Then. May 2000. The New Yorker.
• Gnosticism . Spring 2006 . . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20071104040552/http://pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmarticleID=8456 . November 4, 2007 .
• Structuralism . Spring 2006 . . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20071104032642/http://pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmarticleID=8404 . 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
• "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

See also

• List of poets from the United States

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: 2021-05-25 . 2021 New American Poetry Prize: Final Judge Quan Barry . 2023-05-04 . New American Press . en-US.
2. Web site: Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize . 2023-05-04 . web.mnstate.edu.
3. Web site: 2017-09-12 . Barry, Amy Quan . 2023-06-15 . English . en-US.
4. Web site: Gena . Kittner . 2022-02-07 . World traveling UW-Madison professor shares a new novel and play . 2023-06-15 . Wisconsin State Journal . en.
5. https://www.salemnews.com/news/lifestyles/casting-a-spell-danvers-native-mixes-witch-history-with-field-hockey-in-new-novel/article_e73280a6-4d03-5962-835b-c9a107317736.html Casting a spell: Danvers native mixes witch history with field hockey in new novel
6. Web site: Amy Quan Barry, English, UW-Madison . www.english.wisc.edu . 14 January 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20040907212523/http://www.english.wisc.edu/faculty/barry.html . 7 September 2004 . dead.
7. Web site: The Missouri Review. 2000. 1 January 2015.
8. Barry. Amy Quan. If, Then. 2020-12-20. The New Yorker. 22 May 2000. en-us.
9. Web site: Archived copy . southeastreview.org . 14 January 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090725222634/http://southeastreview.org/print.html . 25 July 2009 . dead.
10. Web site: VQR » Issues . www.vqronline.org . 14 January 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20071109121258/http://www.vqronline.org/issues/2/ . 9 November 2007 . dead.
11. Web site: Asylum . 2023-05-04 . University of Pittsburgh Press.
12. Web site: Past Winners The Society of Midland Authors . 2023-05-04 . en-US.
13. Web site: March 29, 2017 . National Endowment for the Arts Grant Brings Amy Quan Barry to Ellensburg . 4 May 2023 . www.cwu.edu.
14. Web site: 2022-07-26 . From the archives: Quan Barry on her debut novel, 'She Weeps Each Time You're Born' . 2023-12-13 . MPR News . en.
15. Web site: 'She Weeps Each Time You're Born' by Quan Barry - the Boston Globe. The Boston Globe.
16. Web site: Quinn . Annalisa . March 4, 2020 . Witchcraft, Field Hockey And 1980s Massachusetts Meet In 'We Ride Upon Sticks' . NPR.
17. Book: Barry, Quan. We ride upon sticks. 2020. 978-1-5247-4809-8. First. New York. 1103536420.
18. Web site: We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry: 9781524748098 PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books. 2020-06-04. PenguinRandomhouse.com. en-US.
19. Web site: Patrick . Bethanne . 2022-03-03 . Review: A novelist of great range follows mismatched twins through Mongolia . 2023-12-13 . Los Angeles Times . en-US.
20. Web site: Young . Molly . February 22, 2022 . Twin Brothers on a Quest to Find a Reborn Spiritual Leader . New York Times.
21. Hamann, Dane. Review of Water Puppets by Quan Barry. TriQuarterly. April 30, 2012.