Barbara Tran
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Barbara Tran is an American poet
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Born in New York City
, she received her B.A. from New York University
and her M.F.A. 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, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference
Scholarship, MacDowell Colony
Gerald Freund Fellowship, and Pushcart Prize
, and is featured in filmmaker Yunah Hong's documentary Between the Lines: Asian American Women's Poetry. Her first published poetry collection, In the Mynah Bird's Own Words (Tupelo Press, 2002), was selected as a PEN/Open Book
Award finalist. She is currently at work on a second poetry collection and a novel.
Poet
A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...
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Born in New York City
New York City
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, she received her B.A. from New York University
New York University
New York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...
and her M.F.A. from Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
. 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, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference
Bread Loaf Writers' Conference
The Bread Loaf Writers' Conference is a writers' conference held every summer at the Bread Loaf Inn, near Bread Loaf Mountain, east of Middlebury, Vermont...
Scholarship, MacDowell Colony
MacDowell Colony
The MacDowell Colony is an art colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire, U.S.A., founded in 1907 by Marian MacDowell, pianist and wife of composer Edward MacDowell. She established the institution and its endowment chiefly with donated funds...
Gerald Freund Fellowship, and Pushcart Prize
Pushcart Prize
The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize by Pushcart Press that honors the best "poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot" published in the small presses over the previous year. Magazine and small book press editors are invited to nominate up to 6 works they have featured....
, and is featured in filmmaker Yunah Hong's documentary Between the Lines: Asian American Women's Poetry. Her first published poetry collection, In the Mynah Bird's Own Words (Tupelo Press, 2002), was selected as a PEN/Open Book
PEN/Open Book
PEN/Open Book is a program intended to foster racial and ethnic diversity within the literary and publishing communities, and works to establish access for diverse literary groups to the publishing industry...
Award finalist. She is currently at work on a second poetry collection and a novel.
Barbara Tran online
- Barbara Tran's personal webpage
- Three poems from crossconnect, "Rosary", "Rules of the Game", and "Fodder"
- "Phu Nhuan", a poem