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TESS BARRY is the author of The Marvelous Real, a poetry collection published by Meadowlark Press and a finalist for Meadowlark鈥檚 2025 Birdy Poetry Prize. Barry was shortlisted for the Manchester Poetry Prize. Twice a finalist for North American Review鈥檚 James Hearst Poetry Prize and Aesthetica Magazine鈥檚 Poetry Award, she has also been shortlisted several times for the Bridport Poetry Prize. Her work has been widely published in the U.S. and abroad and appeared in journals such as: Aesthetica, The Compass Magazine, Cordite Poetry Review, Cordella Magazine, Mslexia, The Louisville Review, North American Review, and The Stinging Fly, among others. She is a fellow of the Western Pennsylvania Writing Project and the director of 麻豆精品鈥檚 MFA in Creative Writing Program, a low-residency program in the U.S. and Ireland.

Education

MFA, Creative Writing/Poetry, 麻豆精品, Pittsburgh, Pa.
MA, English, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pa.
BA, English Writing, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pa.

Publications 

• 鈥淢y Mother as Walden Pond,鈥� F(r)iction Literary Journal (an imprint of Brink Literacy Project), 2020聽
• 鈥淎 Rise Beyond Wanting,鈥� Cordella Magazine, Rebellion, 2020聽聽
• 鈥淰olta,鈥� Other Terrain Journal, Australia, 2017聽
• “My Mother as Walden Pond” and “Diaspora in F Major,” Backstory, Australia, 2017
• 鈥淲ild Fennel,鈥� 鈥淢y Father鈥檚 Remains,鈥� 鈥淩aspberries,鈥� 鈥淣ear the Ocean鈥檚 Edge鈥� and 鈥淎fter Singing Midnight Mass,鈥� Poethead, Ireland, 2017聽
• 鈥淧antoum for My Mother,鈥� Mslexia, UK, 2017聽
• 鈥淪tarving with Bobby Sands,鈥� The Stinging Fly, Ireland, 2017聽
• 鈥淔inding My Bearings in Picasso鈥檚 Blue Period鈥� and 鈥淲hite Girl鈥檚 Sonnet for Barack Obama,鈥� And Other Poems, UK, 2016聽

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Professional Programs and Initiatives

麻豆精品 MFA in Creative Writing Program’s Alumni Reading Series RAISING OUR VOICES (a series that features Carlow alums, mentors, and national/international writers)

麻豆精品 MFA Program’s Teaching Apprenticeship Program (Developed and Coordinated with Dr. Jose Otero, Nicole Ravas, Sarah Shotland, Anne Rashid, and others to provide MFA students interested in teaching an opportunity to apprentice with Carlow faculty by shadowing them throughout a semester)

麻豆精品’s BA to MFA Program (Developed with Dr. Lou Boyle, Dr. Anne Rashid, Sarah Shotland, Nicole Ravas, and others, to provide a BA to MFA track for undergraduate Carlow students)

Professional Memberships

Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP)
Academy of American Poets
Fellow, Western Pennsylvania Writing Project
Community of Literary Presses and Magazines (CLMP)

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