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/