Barbara Tran

Tran is a recipient of a Research and Creation grant and a Professional Development for Artists grant from the Canada Council for the Arts, as well as a Literary Creation Project grant from the Ontario Arts Council. She is currently longlisted for the 2018 CBC Nonfiction Prize (winner TBA).

In Fall 2015, Tran was a Writer in Residence at Hedgebrook. She lives in Toronto, Canada.

Born in New York City, she received her B.A. from New York University and her M.F.A. from Columbia University. She coedited the anthology Watermark: Vietnamese American Poetry and Prose (Asian American Writers' Workshop, 1998) and guest edited Viet Nam: Beyond the Frame, a special issue of Michigan Quarterly Review (Fall 2004). She is the recipient of a Lannan Foundation Writing Residency, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference Scholarship, MacDowell Colony Gerald Freund Fellowship, and Pushcart Prize, and is featured in filmmaker Yunah Hong's documentary Between the Lines: Asian American Women's Poetry. Her poems have appeared in the Women's Review of Books, Ploughshares, and The New Yorker, as well as in the Williams College Museum of Art exhibit "The Moon is Broken: Photography from Poetry, Poetry from Photography." Tran's first poetry collection, In the Mynah Bird's Own Words (Tupelo Press, 2002), was selected by Robert Wrigley as the winner of Tupelo Press' chapbook competition, and was a PEN/Open Book Award finalist. The collection was reviewed by poet Christian Langworthy for the Michigan Quarterly Review.

Barbara Tran (born 1968) is an American-born poet living in Canada.