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Barbara Tran

Author of In The Mynah Bird's Own Words

Barbara Tran’s In The Mynah Bird's Own Words

Biography

Barbara Tran's poetry collection, In the Mynah Bird's Own Words, selected by Robert Wrigley for Tupelo Press, was a PEN Open Book Award finalist. Barbara is the co-editor of Watermark: Vietnamese American Poetry & Prose; guest editor of the special Michigan Quarterly Review issue "Viet Nam: Beyond the Frame"; and the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, Bread Loaf scholarship, and Lannan Foundation writing residency, and has been published in the New Yorker.

Awards

2006 Drunken Boat: Panliterary Award Finalist
2004 Bread Loaf Writers' Conference: Theodore Morrison Scholar in Poetry
2003 Lannan Foundation Writing Residency
2003 Asian American Writers' Workshop: Members' Choice Award Finalist
2002 PEN: Open Book Award Finalist
2002 ForeWord Magazine: Book of the Year Finalist
2000 Asian Avenue: Poetry Contest, 1st Prize
1999 Pushcart Prize
1997 MacDowell Colony: Gerald Freund Fellowship
1993-4 New York Community Trust/Edward and Sally Van Lier Fellowship

Links

For information on upcoming readings and recent publications, please see: www.betasquared.net/barbaratran/

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