Barbara Tran Explained

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

Career

Born in New York City,^[4] Tran received her BA from New York University and her MFA from Columbia University. 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,^[5] Bread Loaf Writers' Conference Scholarship, MacDowell Colony Fellowship,^[6] and Pushcart Prize, and is featured in filmmaker Yunah Hong's documentary Between the Lines: Asian American Women's Poetry.

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, and was a PEN/Open Book Award finalist.

In fall 2015, Tran was a writer-in-residence at Hedgebrook. She lives in Toronto.^[8]

Awards and honors

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.

She was longlisted for the 2018 CBC Nonfiction Prize.

Works

• Tran. Barbara. 1993. Love and Rice. The Antioch Review. en. 51. 1. 91. 10.2307/4612672. 4612672.
• Tran. Barbara. 1997. The Seamstress Cycle. Amerasia Journal. en. 23. 2. 171–176. 10.17953/amer.23.2.58q48hj603673135. 0044-7471.
• Tran. Barbara. 1997. from 'Rosary'. Ploughshares. 23. 1. 187–193. 0048-4474. 40354753.
• Book: Watermark: Vietnamese American Poetry and Prose. 1998. Asian American Writers' Workshop. 1-889876-05-4. Tran. Barbara. New York. 39057048. Truong. Monique T. D.. Monique Truong. Luu. Truong Khoi.
• Book: Tran, Barbara. In the Mynah Bird's Own Words. 2002. Tupelo Press. 0-9710310-5-3. Dorset, Vermont. 52139675. ^[9] PEN/Open Book Award finalist.^[10]
• Tran. Barbara. 2002. Released. Mānoa. 14. 1. 49–50. 1045-7909. 4230037.
• Tran. Barbara. July 2002. Spider: Life after 1975. The Women's Review of Books. 19. 10–11. 21. 10.2307/4023887. 4023887.
• 2004. Tran. Barbara. Introduction. Michigan Quarterly Review. 43. 4. 2027/spo.act2080.0043.401. 0026-2420.
• Web site: Tran. Barbara. August 21, 2006. Imaginary Menagerie. The New Yorker. 68. en-us.
• Tran. Barbara. 2019. Buttercups in Foil on the Windowsill. Ploughshares. 45. 4. 153. 0048-4474. 26854701.

Notes and References

1. Book: Gelfant, Blanche H.. The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story. 11 August 2011. March 2004. Columbia University Press. 978-0-231-11099-0. 39–.
2. Web site: October 29, 2009. First, Second Generation Immigrant Poets Make Their Voices Heard. 2020-09-08. Voice of America. en.
3. Web site: Garvey. Hugh. November 17, 1998. Notes from Underground. 2020-09-08. The Village Voice.
4. Web site: Truong. Monique. Monique Truong. 2019. The Pleasures of Not Being Lonely. 2020-09-08. The Georgia Review. en-US.
5. Web site: Barbara Tran. 2020-09-08. Lannan Foundation. en.
6. Web site: Barbara Tran . 2023-12-20 . macdowell.org . MacDowell.
7. Web site: 2007. The Moon Is Broken: Photography from Poetry, Poetry from Photography. Williams College Museum of Art.
8. Web site: September 5, 2018. Living Room by Barbara Tran. CBC Books.
9. Reviews of In the Mynah Bird's Own Words:
   • Journey. Anna. 2006. Chapbook Reviews II: Patty Paine, Cecily Parks, Barbara Tran, Catherine Pierce, and John Allman. Blackbird. 5. 2. 1540-3068.
   • Langworthy. Christian. Winter 2005. In Barbara Tran's Own Words. Michigan Quarterly Review. 44. 1. 2027/spo.act2080.0044.131. 1558-7266.
   • Web site: Lieberman. Kim-An. 2011-04-18. For Poetry Month, Five Voices from the Vietnamese Diaspora. 2020-09-08. diaCRITICS. en-US.
   • Web site: Sohn. Stephen Hong. February 16, 2010. On the Small Press and Asian American Poetry: Tupelo Press. 2020-09-08. Lantern Review Blog. en-US.
10. Web site: Barbara Tran. 2020-09-08. Poetry Foundation. en.