Amy Quan Barry (born

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) is a Vietnamese American

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, and

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. She is a recipient of the

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. Barry is a Lorraine Hansberry Professor of English at the

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Biography

She was raised in

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, where she played on the

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team in the late 1980s. She graduated from the

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, with an MFA, and was a Wallace Stegner fellow at

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and the Diane Middlebrook poetry fellow at the

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. She teaches at the

. Her work has appeared in ''

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'', ''

The Missouri Review ''The Missouri Review'' is a literary magazine founded in 1978 by the University of Missouri. It publishes fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction quarterly. With its open submission policy, ''The Missouri Review'' receives 12,000 manuscripts ...

'', ''

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'', ''Southeast Review'', and ''

Virginia Quarterly Review The ''Virginia Quarterly Review'' is a quarterly literary magazine that was established in 1925 by James Southall Wilson, at the request of University of Virginia president E. A. Alderman. This ''"National Journal of Literature and Discussion"'' ...

''. In 2000, Barry's poetry book ''Asylum'' won the

and was a finalist for the 2002

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' poetry award. Barry spoke at an event hosted and sponsored by

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and the

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. In 2021, Barry was the final judge for the 2021 New American Poetry Prize. Barry's writing touches on a variety of genres, including

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and

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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''
* ttp://www.kenyonreview.org/kro_full.php?file=barry.php "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

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, finalist, ''Water Puppets''

References

External links

University of Pittsburgh Press author pagePoetry Foundation profile"She Weeps Each Time You're Born", ''NPR''UW faculty page
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