Barbara Tran (born 1968) is an American poet.[1]
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 first published poetry collection, In the Mynah Bird's Own Words (Tupelo Press, 2002), was selected as a PEN/Open Book Award finalist. She is currently at work on a second poetry collection and a novel.