Quan Barry, author portrait
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Quan Barry

Born in Saigon and raised in Massachusetts, QUAN BARRY is the author of the novels She Weeps Each Time You’re Born and We Ride Upon Sticks (winner of the 2020 ALA Alex Award), and four books of poetry, including Water Puppets (winner of the AWP Donald Hall Prize for Poetry and a PEN Open Book finalist). Barry’s first play, The Mytilenean Debate, premiers in the spring of 2022. She is the Lorraine Hansberry Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
When I'm Gone, Look for Me in the East
We Ride Upon Sticks
She Weeps Each Time You're Born

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When I'm Gone, Look for Me in the East
We Ride Upon Sticks
She Weeps Each Time You're Born

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