Barbara Tran

Barbara Tran (born 1968) is an American-born poet living in Canada.^[1][2] She received a Pushcart Prize in 1997.^[3]

Born 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]

Tran 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]

• 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.

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