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 | |
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Born | Saigon |
Occupation | Writer |
Period | 2000–present |
Genre | Poetry, literary fiction, plays |
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]
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