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
  • When I'm Gone, Look for Me in the East. Penguin Random House. 2022. ISBN 978-1-524-74811-1[7][8]
  • We Ride Upon Sticks. Penguin Random House. 2020. ISBN 978-1-524-74809-8[9][10]
  • She Weeps Each Time You're Born. Random House. 2015. ISBN 978-0-307-91177-3. [11][12]

Poetry collections
  • Loose Strife. University of Pittsburgh Press. 2015. Archived from the original on 2015-01-14. Retrieved 2015-01-13.[13]
  • 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. Casting a spell: Danvers native mixes witch history with field hockey in new novel
  2. "Archived copy". www.english.wisc.edu. Archived from the original on 7 September 2004. Retrieved 14 January 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. "The Missouri Review". 2000. Retrieved 1 January 2015.
  4. Barry, Amy Quan (22 May 2000). "If , Then". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2020-12-20.
  5. "Archived copy". southeastreview.org. Archived from the original on 25 July 2009. Retrieved 14 January 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. "Archived copy". www.vqronline.org. Archived from the original on 9 November 2007. Retrieved 14 January 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  7. Barry, Quan (2022). When i'm gone, look for me in the east (First ed.). New York. ISBN 978-1-524-74811-1. OCLC 1291403810.
  8. "When I'm Gone, Look for Me in the East a novel by Quan Barry: 9781524748111 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books". PenguinRandomhouse.com. Retrieved 2022-02-28.
  9. Barry, Quan (2020). We ride upon sticks (First ed.). New York. ISBN 978-1-5247-4809-8. OCLC 1103536420.
  10. "We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry: 9781524748098 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books". PenguinRandomhouse.com. Retrieved 2020-06-04.
  11. http://www.randomhouse.com/book/237146/she-weeps-each-time-youre-born-by-quan-barry
  12. "'She Weeps Each Time You're Born' by Quan Barry - the Boston Globe". The Boston Globe.
  13. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-01-14. Retrieved 2015-01-13.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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