Barbara Tran (born 1968) is an American-born poet living in Canada.[1][2] She received a Pushcart Prize in 1997.[3]
Career
editBorn in New York City,[4] Tran received her BA from New York University and her MFA from Columbia University.[5] She coedited the anthology Watermark: Vietnamese American Poetry and Prose (Asian American Writers' Workshop, 1998) and guest edited Viet Nam: Beyond the Frame, a special issue of Michigan Quarterly Review (Fall 2004).
She is the recipient of a Lannan Foundation Writing Residency,[6] Bread Loaf Writers' Conference Scholarship,[citation needed] MacDowell Colony Fellowship,[5] and Pushcart Prize,[3] and is featured in filmmaker Yunah Hong's documentary Between the Lines: Asian American Women's Poetry.[citation needed]
Her poems have appeared in the Women's Review of Books, Ploughshares, and The New Yorker, as well as in the Williams College Museum of Art exhibit The Moon Is Broken: Photography from Poetry, Poetry from Photography.[7]
Tran's first poetry collection, In the Mynah Bird's Own Words (Tupelo Press, 2002), was selected by Robert Wrigley as the winner of Tupelo Press's chapbook competition,[citation needed] and was a PEN/Open Book Award finalist.[8]
In fall 2015, Tran was a writer-in-residence at Hedgebrook. She lives in Toronto.[9]
Awards and honors
editTran is a recipient of a Research and Creation grant and a Professional Development for Artists grant from the Canada Council, as well as a Literary Creation Project grant from the Ontario Arts Council.[citation needed]
She was longlisted for the 2018 CBC Nonfiction Prize.[9]
Precedented Parenting was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry at the 2024 Governor General's Awards.[10]
Works
edit- Tran, Barbara (1993). "Love and Rice". The Antioch Review. 51 (1): 91. doi:10.2307/4612672. JSTOR 4612672.
- Tran, Barbara (1997). "The Seamstress Cycle". Amerasia Journal. 23 (2): 171–176. doi:10.17953/amer.23.2.58q48hj603673135. ISSN 0044-7471.
- Tran, Barbara (1997). "from 'Rosary'". Ploughshares. 23 (1): 187–193. ISSN 0048-4474. JSTOR 40354753.
- Tran, Barbara; Truong, Monique T. D.; Luu, Truong Khoi, eds. (1998). Watermark: Vietnamese American Poetry and Prose. New York: Asian American Writers' Workshop. ISBN 1-889876-05-4. OCLC 39057048.
- Tran, Barbara (2002). In the Mynah Bird's Own Words. Dorset, Vermont: Tupelo Press. ISBN 0-9710310-5-3. OCLC 52139675.[11] PEN/Open Book Award finalist.[8]
- Tran, Barbara (2002). "Released". Mānoa. 14 (1): 49–50. ISSN 1045-7909. JSTOR 4230037.
- Tran, Barbara (July 2002). "Spider: Life after 1975". The Women's Review of Books. 19 (10–11): 21. doi:10.2307/4023887. JSTOR 4023887.
- Tran, Barbara, ed. (2004). "Introduction". Michigan Quarterly Review. 43 (4). hdl:2027/spo.act2080.0043.401. ISSN 0026-2420.
- Tran, Barbara (August 21, 2006). "Imaginary Menagerie". The New Yorker. p. 68.
- Tran, Barbara (2019). "Buttercups in Foil on the Windowsill". Ploughshares. 45 (4): 153. ISSN 0048-4474. JSTOR 26854701.
References
edit- ^ Gelfant, Blanche H. (March 2004). The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story. Columbia University Press. pp. 39–. ISBN 978-0-231-11099-0. Retrieved August 11, 2011.
- ^ "First, Second Generation Immigrant Poets Make Their Voices Heard". Voice of America. October 29, 2009. Retrieved September 8, 2020.
- ^ a b Garvey, Hugh (November 17, 1998). "Notes from Underground". The Village Voice. Retrieved September 8, 2020.
- ^ Truong, Monique (2019). "The Pleasures of Not Being Lonely". The Georgia Review. Retrieved September 8, 2020.
- ^ a b "Barbara Tran". macdowell.org. MacDowell. Retrieved December 20, 2023.
- ^ "Barbara Tran". Lannan Foundation. Retrieved September 8, 2020.
- ^ "The Moon Is Broken: Photography from Poetry, Poetry from Photography". Williams College Museum of Art. 2007.
- ^ a b "Barbara Tran". Poetry Foundation. April 25, 2017. Retrieved September 8, 2020.
- ^ a b "Living Room by Barbara Tran". CBC Books. September 5, 2018.
- ^ Cassandra Drudi, "Canisia Lubrin, Danny Ramadan among 2024 Governor General’s Literary Award finalists". Quill & Quire, October 8, 2024.
- ^ Reviews of In the Mynah Bird's Own Words:
- Journey, Anna (2006). "Chapbook Reviews II: Patty Paine, Cecily Parks, Barbara Tran, Catherine Pierce, and John Allman". Blackbird. 5 (2). ISSN 1540-3068.
- Langworthy, Christian (Winter 2005). "In Barbara Tran's Own Words". Michigan Quarterly Review. 44 (1). hdl:2027/spo.act2080.0044.131. ISSN 1558-7266.
- Lieberman, Kim-An (April 18, 2011). "For Poetry Month, Five Voices from the Vietnamese Diaspora". diaCRITICS. Retrieved September 8, 2020.
- Sohn, Stephen Hong (February 16, 2010). "On the Small Press and Asian American Poetry: Tupelo Press". Lantern Review Blog. Retrieved September 8, 2020.
