Quan Barry

Quan Barry
Born	Saigon
Occupation	Writer
Period	2000-present
Genre	Poetry, literary fiction

Amy Quan Barry (born Saigon) is an American poet and novelist. She is the author of the poetry collections Asylum, Controvertibles, Water Puppets, and Loose Strife, and the novel She Weeps Each Time You're Born. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Missouri Review, Ploughshares, The Kenyon Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and other literary publications. She is the recipient of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize (for Asylum) and has received fellowships from the Wallace Stegner program at Stanford University, the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, the Wisconsin Arts Board, and the National Endowment for the Arts. She teaches at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Works

Journals

• "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

External links

• "She Weeps Each Time You're Born", NPR
• "Featured Poet: Quan Barry", Perihelion