Amy Quan Barry (born Saigon) is an American poet and novelist.
She was raised on Boston's north shore.
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.
Her work has appeared in The Kenyon Review, The Missouri Review, The New Yorker, Southeast Review, and Virginia Quarterly Review.
She Weeps Each Time You're Born. Random House. 2015. ISBN 978-0-307-91177-3. Loose Strife. University of Pittsburgh Press. 2015. Water Puppets. University of Pittsburgh Press. 2011. Controvertibles. University of Pittsburgh Press. 2004. ISBN 978-0-8229-5860-4. Asylum. University of Pittsburgh Press. 2001. ISBN 978-0-8229-5769-0. Boller, Diane (2003). Diane Boller, Don Selby, Chryss Yost, eds. Poetry daily: 366 poems from the world's most popular poetry website. Sourcebooks, Inc. p. 482. ISBN 978-1-4022-0151-6. CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)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. The New Yorker. May 2000. "Gnosticism". Ploughshares. Ploughshares. Spring 2006. Archived from the original on November 4, 2007. "Structuralism". Ploughshares. 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"Doug Flutie's 1984 Orange Bowl Hail Mary as Water into Fire ", Crossroads"Cruz del Condor", LinebreakAwards and honors
2012 PEN/Open Book, finalist, Water Puppets2010 Donald Hall Prize in Poetry, Water Puppets 
