Quan Barry

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

Quan Barry
BornSaigon
OccupationWriter
Period2000-present
GenrePoetry, 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
  • We Ride Upon Sticks. Penguin Random House. 2020. ISBN 978-1-524-74809-8[7] [8]
  • She Weeps Each Time You're Born. Random House. 2015. ISBN 978-0-307-91177-3. [9][10]

Poetry collections
  • Loose Strife. University of Pittsburgh Press. 2015. Archived from the original on 2015-01-14. Retrieved 2015-01-13.[11]
  • 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

Journals

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

See also

References
  1. [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]
  3. "The Missouri Review". 2000. Retrieved 1 January 2015.
  4. Barry, Amy Quan. "If , Then". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2020-12-20.
  7. Barry, Quan (2020). We ride upon sticks (First ed.). New York. ISBN 978-1-5247-4809-8. OCLC 1103536420.
  8. "We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry: 9781524748098 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books". PenguinRandomhouse.com. Retrieved 2020-06-04.
  10. "'She Weeps Each Time You're Born' by Quan Barry - the Boston Globe".
  11. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-01-14. Retrieved 2015-01-13.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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