Amy Quan Barry (born Saigon) is a Vietnamese American poet, novelist, and playwright. She is a recipient of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize. Barry is a Lorraine Hansberry Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Biography She was raised in Danvers, Massachusetts, where she played on the Danvers High School field hockey team in the late 1980s. 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.
Her work has appeared in The Kenyon Review, The Missouri Review, The New Yorker, Southeast Review, and Virginia Quarterly Review.
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. Barry spoke at an event hosted and sponsored by Central Washington University and the National Endowment for the Arts. 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.
Works
Novels
We Ride Upon Sticks. Penguin Random House. 2020. When I'm Gone, Look for Me in the East. Penguin Random House. 2022.
Poetry collections
Anthologies
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 2010 Donald Hall Prize in Poetry, Water Puppets 2012 PEN Open Book Award, finalist, Water Puppets
See also List of poets from the United States
References
External links University of Pittsburgh Press author page Poetry Foundation profile "She Weeps Each Time You're Born", NPR "Featured Poet: Quan Barry", Perihelion UW faculty page