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
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

• 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

• 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
• "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

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)

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