Anstruther Books
An imprint of Palimpsest Press
Cover image by Yen Ha
—rob mclennan, author of On Beauty
—Monique Truong, author of The Sweetest Fruits,
Bitter in the Mouth, and The Book of Salt
—River Halen, author of Dream Rooms
Madame Pirate: Becoming a Legend
Written and directed by Morgan Ommer and Dan-Chi Huang
Narration written by Barbara Tran
Nominated for Best VR Story, 2022 Cannes Film Festival
Official Selection of the 2022 SXSW, Melbourne International, BIFAN, and VRE Film Festivals
Madame Pirate: Code of Conduct
Directed by Morgan Ommer and Dan-Chi Huang
Written by Morgan Ommer, Dan-Chi Huang, and Barbara Tran
Official Selection of the 2024 SXSW Film Festival
Barbara Tran's poetry and fiction have appeared in The Paris Review, The New Yorker, The New Quarterly, The Malahat Review, The Ex-Puritan, and Conjunctions.
She is a co-writer of two XR short films: Madame Pirate: Becoming a Legend (2022) and Madame Pirate: Code of Conduct (2024), both Official Selections of SXSW. Becoming a Legend was Nominated for Best VR Story, 2022 Cannes Film Festival.
She is currently working in collaboration with Canadian-born artist Jacqueline Hoàng Nguyễn on the script for Nguyễn's forthcoming feature film.
Precedented Parroting is Barbara's debut full-length poetry collection.
A contributing co-editor of Watermark: Vietnamese American Poetry and Prose, 25th Anniversary Edition (2023) and a contributor to collaborative hybrid projects by She Who Has No Master(s), a collective of women and nonbinary writers and artists of the Vietnamese diaspora, Barbara is a recipient of a Pushcart Prize, a MacDowell Freund Fellowship, and a Lannan Foundation Writing Residency.
In the Mynah Bird’s Own Words, Barbara's first poetry collection, was selected by Robert Wrigley as the winner of Tupelo Press’s inaugural chapbook award.
Much of Barbara’s writing is conceived while walking, playing, or sharing a tasty morsel with one of her rescue dogs.
Barbara is a member of AfroMundo, an arts and humanities collective dedicated to fostering civic engagement, building radical solidarity, and promoting wellbeing amongst Afro-Latinx, Afro-Indigenous, Afro-Asian, BIPOC, and 2SLGBTQIA+ peoples.
Precedented Parroting
(Palimpsest Press, February 2024)
In the Mynah Bird's Own Words
Winner, Chapbook Award (Tupelo Press)
• American War Poetry: An Anthology
• Another Dysfunctional Cancer Poem Anthology
• Bold Words: A Century of Asian American Poetry
• From Both Sides Now
• Language for a New Century
• Local/Express: Asian American Arts & Community
• My Viet: Vietnamese American Literature in English, 1962-Present
• On a Bed of Rice: An Asian American Erotic Feast
• Poetry Nation: North American Anthology of Fusion Poetry
• Premonitions: The Kaya Anthology of New Asian North American Poetry
• Pushcart Prize XXIII
• Viet Nam: Beyond the Frame
• Watermark: Vietnamese American Poetry & Prose
• Amerasia Journal
• Antioch Review
• Arts & Letters
• AsianAvenue.com
• Asian Pacific American Journal
• Audrey
• Bark Magazine
• Bennington Review
• Blackbird
• Canthius
• The Capilano Review's ti-TCR
• The Cincinnati Review
• Columbia Journal
• Conjunctions
• Conjunctions Online
• Crab Orchard Review
• CrossConnect
• Cutthroat
• Drunken Boat
• Hamilton Arts & Letters
• The Malahat Review
• Manoa
• Michigan Quarterly Review
• Michigan Quarterly Review Online
• Minola Review
• The New Quarterly
• The New Yorker
• Nhà Magazine
• NYCBigCityLit.com
• The Paris Review
• Pequod
• Ploughshares
• POETRY
• The Puritan
• Rain City Review
• Seneca Review
• Solo
• The Southern Poetry Review
• Viet Nam Forum
• Viet Tide
• Vietnam Journal
• Women's Review of Books
Watermark: Vietnamese American Poetry & Prose, 25th Anniversary Edition
Edited by Barbara Tran, Monique Truong & Khoi Luu
Watermark: Vietnamese American Poetry & Prose
Edited by Barbara Tran, Monique T. D. Truong & Luu Truong Khoi
Viet Nam: Beyond the Frame, Vol. I, A Special Issue of the Michigan Quarterly Review
Edited by Barbara Tran
• Asian American Writers' Workshop Van Lier Fellowship
• Bread Loaf Scholarship
• Canada Council for the Arts Professional Development Grant
• Canada Council for the Arts Research and Creation Grant
• MacDowell: Fellowship
• National Magazine Award Nominations for Short Fiction
• Ontario Arts Council Literary Creation Grant
• Ontario Arts Council Literary Recommender Grants
• Tupelo Press: Chapbook Competition Winner
• Pushcart Prize
• Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity: International Curatorial Institute (July 2024)
• Chula
• Hall Farm
• Hedgebrook
• Lannan Foundation
• MacDowell
• MASS MoCA
• Millay Colony
Along the lakeshore, likely with a dog.
Or via email:
barbaratran [ at ] gmail [ dot ] com
Photos © Barbara Tran
Main: Fiddleheads, Pownal, VT, USA
Publications: Hoi An Market, Hoi An, Quang Nam, Viet Nam
Contact: Centre Island, Toronto, ON, Canada