Quan Barry
{{Short description|American poet and novelist}}
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Amy Quan Barry (born Saigon) is a Vietnamese American poet, novelist, and playwright. She is a recipient of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize.{{Cite web |date=2021-05-25 |title=2021 New American Poetry Prize: Final Judge Quan Barry |url=https://newamericanpress.com/2021-new-american-poetry-prize/ |access-date=2023-05-04 |website=New American Press |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize |url=https://web.mnstate.edu/schwartz/starrett.htm |access-date=2023-05-04 |website=web.mnstate.edu}} Barry is a Lorraine Hansberry Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.{{Cite web |date=2017-09-12 |title=Barry, Amy Quan |url=https://english.wisc.edu/staff/barry-amy-quan/ |access-date=2023-06-15 |website=English |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |first=Gena |last=Kittner |date=2022-02-07 |title=World traveling UW-Madison professor shares a new novel and play |url=https://madison.com/entertainment/books/world-traveling-uw-madison-professor-shares-a-new-novel-and-play/article_a0cbd07b-75d3-5a37-a2bc-2dff950730a9.html |access-date=2023-06-15 |website=Wisconsin State Journal |language=en}}
Biography
She was raised in Danvers, Massachusetts, where she played on the Danvers High School field hockey team in the late 1980s.[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]
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.{{cite web |url=http://www.english.wisc.edu/faculty/barry.html |title=Amy Quan Barry, English, UW-Madison |website=www.english.wisc.edu |access-date=14 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040907212523/http://www.english.wisc.edu/faculty/barry.html |archive-date=7 September 2004 |url-status=dead}}
Her work has appeared in The Kenyon Review, The Missouri Review,{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sTSxAAAAIAAJ&q=Quan+Barry|title=The Missouri Review|year=2000|access-date=1 January 2015}} The New Yorker,{{Cite magazine|last=Barry|first=Amy Quan|title=If, Then|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2000/05/29/if-then|access-date=2020-12-20|magazine=The New Yorker|date=22 May 2000|language=en-us}} Southeast Review,{{cite web |url=http://southeastreview.org/print.html |title=Archived copy |website=southeastreview.org |access-date=14 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090725222634/http://southeastreview.org/print.html |archive-date=25 July 2009 |url-status=dead}} and Virginia Quarterly Review.{{cite web |url=http://www.vqronline.org/issues/2/ |title=VQR » Issues |website=www.vqronline.org |access-date=14 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071109121258/http://www.vqronline.org/issues/2/ |archive-date=9 November 2007 |url-status=dead}}
In 2000, Barry's poetry book Asylum won the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the 2002 Society of Midland Authors' poetry award.{{Cite web |title=Asylum |url=https://upittpress.org/books/9780822957690/ |access-date=2023-05-04 |website=University of Pittsburgh Press}}{{Cite web |title=Past Winners {{!}} The Society of Midland Authors |url=https://midlandauthors.org/past-winners/ |access-date=2023-05-04 |language=en-US}} Barry spoke at an event hosted and sponsored by Central Washington University and the National Endowment for the Arts.{{Cite web |date=March 29, 2017 |title=National Endowment for the Arts Grant Brings Amy Quan Barry to Ellensburg |url=https://www.cwu.edu/news/features/national-endowment-arts-grant-brings-amy-quan-barry-ellensburg |access-date=4 May 2023 |website=www.cwu.edu}} In 2021, Barry was the final judge for the 2021 New American Poetry Prize.
Barry's writing touches on a variety of genres, including magical realism and speculative fiction.{{Citation |last=Hong |first=Mai-Linh K. |title="The Deep Root Snapped": Reproductive Violence and Family Un/Making in Quan Barry's She Weeps Each Time You're Born |date=2020 |url=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39835-4_21 |work=The Palgrave Handbook of Magical Realism in the Twenty-First Century |pages=483–501 |editor-last=Perez |editor-first=Richard |access-date=2023-05-04 |place=Cham |publisher=Springer International Publishing |language=en |doi=10.1007/978-3-030-39835-4_21 |isbn=978-3-030-39835-4 |s2cid=226462796 |editor2-last=Chevalier |editor2-first=Victoria A.|url-access=subscription }}
Works
= Novels =
- {{cite book| title=She Weeps Each Time You're Born| publisher=Random House| year=2015| isbn=978-0-307-91177-3| url=http://knopfdoubleday.com/book/237146/she-weeps-each-time-youre-born/}} {{Cite web |date=2022-07-26 |title=From the archives: Quan Barry on her debut novel, 'She Weeps Each Time You're Born' |url=https://www.mprnews.org/episode/2022/07/26/from-the-archives-quan-barry-on-her-debut-novel-she-weeps-each-time-youre-born |access-date=2023-12-13 |website=MPR News |language=en}}{{Cite web | url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/books/2015/02/19/book-review-she-weeps-each-time-you-born-quan-barry/8J7kel2xrGRdWmPPcZDjFL/story.html |title = 'She Weeps Each Time You're Born' by Quan Barry - the Boston Globe|website = The Boston Globe}}
- We Ride Upon Sticks. Penguin Random House. 2020. {{ISBN|978-1-524-74809-8}}{{Cite web |last=Quinn |first=Annalisa |date=March 4, 2020 |title=Witchcraft, Field Hockey And 1980s Massachusetts Meet In 'We Ride Upon Sticks' |url=https://www.npr.org/2020/03/04/809741338/witchcraft-field-hockey-and-1980s-massachusetts-meet-in-we-ride-upon-sticks |website=NPR}}{{Cite book|last=Barry, Quan|title=We ride upon sticks|year=2020|isbn=978-1-5247-4809-8|edition=First|location=New York|oclc=1103536420}}{{Cite web|title=We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry: 9781524748098 {{!}} PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books|url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/602077/we-ride-upon-sticks-by-quan-barry/|access-date=2020-06-04|website=PenguinRandomhouse.com|language=en-US}}
- When I'm Gone, Look for Me in the East. Penguin Random House. 2022. {{ISBN|978-1-524-74811-1}} {{Cite web |last=Patrick |first=Bethanne |date=2022-03-03 |title=Review: A novelist of great range follows mismatched twins through Mongolia |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2022-03-03/novelist-of-great-range-journeys-to-mongolia |access-date=2023-12-13 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Young |first=Molly |date=February 22, 2022 |title=Twin Brothers on a Quest to Find a Reborn Spiritual Leader |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/22/books/review-quan-barry-when-im-gone-look-for-me-in-east.html |website=New York Times}}
= Poetry collections =
- {{cite book| title=Asylum| publisher=University of Pittsburgh Press| year=2001| isbn=978-0-8229-5769-0| url-access=registration| url=https://archive.org/details/asylum00barr}}
- {{cite book| title=Controvertibles| publisher=University of Pittsburgh Press| year=2004| isbn=978-0-8229-5860-4 }}
- {{cite book| title=Water Puppets| publisher=University of Pittsburgh Press| year=2011}}{{cite journal|author=Hamann, Dane|title=Review of Water Puppets by Quan Barry|journal=TriQuarterly|date=April 30, 2012|url=https://www.triquarterly.org/reviews/water-puppets-quan-barry#:~:text=There%20is%20a%20journalistic%20objectivity%20to%20Quan%20Barry’s,remain%20in%20many%20readers’%20memories%20from%20recent%20decades.}}
- {{cite book |title=Loose Strife |publisher=University of Pittsburgh Press |year=2015 |url= |isbn=9780822963295 }}
=Anthologies=
- {{cite book| title=Poetry daily: 366 poems from the world's most popular poetry website|editor=Diane Boller |editor2=Don Selby |editor3=Chryss Yost| publisher=Sourcebooks, Inc.| year=2003| isbn=978-1-4022-0151-6| pages=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781402201516/page/482 482]| author1=Boller, Diane| url-access=registration| url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781402201516/page/482}}
- {{cite book| title=American poetry now: Pitt poetry series anthology|editor=Ed Ochester| publisher=University of Pittsburgh Press| year=2007| isbn=978-0-8229-4310-5 }}
- {{cite book| title=New Voices: Contemporary Poetry from the United States | editor= H.L. Hix | editor-link= H.L. Hix | publisher= Irish Pages | year=2008| isbn=978-0-9544257-9-1}}
=Journals=
- {{cite magazine| url=http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2000/05/29/if-then| title=If, Then| date=May 2000| magazine=The New Yorker}}
- {{cite journal|url=http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=8456 |title=Gnosticism |date=Spring 2006 |journal=Ploughshares |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071104040552/http://pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmarticleID=8456 |archive-date=November 4, 2007 }}
- {{cite journal|url=http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=8404 |title=Structuralism |date=Spring 2006 |journal=Ploughshares |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071104032642/http://pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmarticleID=8404 |archive-date=November 4, 2007 }}
- [http://www.bu.edu/agni/fiction/online/2003/quanbarry-2.html "errata from the field: demographics", AGNI]
- [http://www.bu.edu/agni/fiction/online/2003/quanbarry-1.html "mission statement, or the Saturday after Sinatra died", AGNI]
- [http://www.kenyonreview.org/kro_full.php?file=barry.php "The impulsive man acts with fierceness", Kenyon Review, April 2009] {{dead link|date=July 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20080924181224/http://www.poetrysociety.org/journal/articles/20poets.html "Doug Flutie's 1984 Orange Bowl Hail Mary as Water into Fire ", Crossroads]
- [http://linebreak.org/23/cruz-del-condor/ "Cruz del Condor", Linebreak]
Awards and honors
- 2010 Donald Hall Prize in Poetry, Water Puppets
- 2012 PEN Open Book Award, finalist, Water Puppets
See also
References
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External links
- [https://upittpress.org/authors/amy-quan-barry/ University of Pittsburgh Press author page]
- [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/quan-barry Poetry Foundation profile]
- [https://www.npr.org/books/titles/384346044/she-weeps-each-time-youre-born "She Weeps Each Time You're Born", NPR]
- [http://www.webdelsol.com/Perihelion/p-profile10.htm "Featured Poet: Quan Barry", Perihelion]
- [https://english.wisc.edu/staff/barry-amy-quan/ UW faculty page]
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Category:Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize winners
Category:Writers from Wisconsin
Category:Vietnamese emigrants to the United States
Category:University of Michigan alumni
Category:University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty