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]
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]