Amy Quan Barry (born Saigon) is a Vietnamese American poet, novelist, and playwright. She is a recipient of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize.^[1][2] Barry is a Lorraine Hansberry Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.^[3][4]

She was raised in Danvers, Massachusetts, where she played on the Danvers High School field hockey team in the late 1980s.^[5]

She graduated from the University of Michigan, with an MFA, and was a Wallace Stegner fellow at Stanford University and the Diane Middlebrook poetry fellow at the University of Wisconsin. She teaches at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.^[6]

Her work has appeared in The Kenyon Review, The Missouri Review,^[7] The New Yorker,^[8] Southeast Review,^[9] and Virginia Quarterly Review.^[10]

In 2000, Barry's poetry book Asylum won the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the 2002 Society of Midland Authors' poetry award.^[2][11][12] Barry spoke at an event hosted and sponsored by Central Washington University and the National Endowment for the Arts.^[13] In 2021, Barry was the final judge for the 2021 New American Poetry Prize.^[1]

Barry's writing touches on a variety of genres, including magical realism and speculative fiction.^[14]

• She Weeps Each Time You're Born. Random House. 2015. ISBN 978-0-307-91177-3. ^[15][16]
• We Ride Upon Sticks. Penguin Random House. 2020. ISBN 978-1-524-74809-8^[17][18][19]
• When I'm Gone, Look for Me in the East. Penguin Random House. 2022. ISBN 978-1-524-74811-1 ^[20][21]

• Asylum. University of Pittsburgh Press. 2001. ISBN 978-0-8229-5769-0.
• Controvertibles. University of Pittsburgh Press. 2004. ISBN 978-0-8229-5860-4.
• Water Puppets. University of Pittsburgh Press. 2011.^[22]
• Loose Strife. University of Pittsburgh Press. 2015. ISBN 9780822963295.

• Boller, Diane (2003). Diane Boller; Don Selby; Chryss Yost (eds.). Poetry daily: 366 poems from the world's most popular poetry website. Sourcebooks, Inc. pp. 482. ISBN 978-1-4022-0151-6.
• Ed Ochester, ed. (2007). American poetry now: Pitt poetry series anthology. University of Pittsburgh Press. ISBN 978-0-8229-4310-5.
• H.L. Hix, ed. (2008). New Voices: Contemporary Poetry from the United States. Irish Pages. ISBN 978-0-9544257-9-1.

• "If, Then". The New Yorker. May 2000.
• "Gnosticism". Ploughshares. Spring 2006. Archived from the original on November 4, 2007.
• "Structuralism". Ploughshares. Spring 2006. Archived from the original on November 4, 2007.
• "errata from the field: demographics", AGNI
• "mission statement, or the Saturday after Sinatra died", AGNI
• "The impulsive man acts with fierceness", Kenyon Review, April 2009 ^{[permanent dead link‍]}
• "Doug Flutie's 1984 Orange Bowl Hail Mary as Water into Fire ", Crossroads
• "Cruz del Condor", Linebreak

• 2010 Donald Hall Prize in Poetry, Water Puppets
• 2012 PEN Open Book Award, finalist, Water Puppets

• List of poets from the United States

• University of Pittsburgh Press author page
• Poetry Foundation profile
• "She Weeps Each Time You're Born", NPR
• "Featured Poet: Quan Barry", Perihelion
• UW faculty page