Barbara Tran is a widely published poet, writer, and screenwriter. Tran was born in New York and currently resides in Toronto. Tran is one of three contributing editors of Watermark: Vietnamese American Poetry and Prose, first published in 1998 and now reissued as a 25th Anniversary Edition (Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2023).
Poetry (Chapbook)
In the Mynah Bird’s Own Words
Dorset, Vermont: Tupelo Press, 2007
Third pbk. ed.
Poetry
Precedented Parroting
Windsor, ON: Palimpsest Press, 2024.
PS8639.R36 P74 2024
Also available as an e-book (access restricted to members of the university community)
Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)
Opening with an exit, the poems in Precedented Parroting accept no assumptions. With the determination and curiosity of a problem-solving crow, this expansive debut plumbs personal archives and traverses the natural world, endeavouring to shake the tight cage of stereotypes, Asian and avian. Praised as “lively and intelligent” and “lyrically delicious,” Barbara Tran’s poetry offers us both the keen eye and grace of a hawk, “red-tailed gliding / on time.”
Awards and Honours
2024 Governor General’s Literary Awards–Poetry, English (Finalist)