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Barbara Tran

Barbara Tran‘s first poetry collection, In the Mynah Bird’s Own Words, was selected as the winner of Tupelo Press’s chapbook competition, and as a finalist for the PEN Open Book Award.

Coeditor of Watermark: Vietnamese American Poetry and Prose, Barbara is the recipient of a MacDowell Colony Gerald Freund Fellowship, an Edward and Sally Van Lier Fellowship, and a Pushcart Prize. During her residency in Marfa, Barbara worked on new poems and a primarily prose, book-length narrative.

Residencies
  • 2003