Born in Saigon and raised on Boston’s north shore, 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 one of NPR and Time magazine’s Best Books of 2020) and of four books of poetry, including Water Puppets (winner of the AWP Donald Hall Prize for Poetry and a PEN Open Book finalist). Barry is the 2021–2022 writer-in-residence at Forward Theater. She teaches at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she is the Lorraine Hansberry Professor of English.