Vu Tran


Vu Hoang Tran is a Vietnamese American novelist and short story writer. His debut novel, Dragonfish, was published in 2015.

Life

Vu Hoang Tran was born in 1975 in Saigon, Vietnam. In 1980, he and his family fled the country by boat and ended up in the refugee camps in Pulau Bidong, off the coast of Malaysia, for four months. They settled in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where Tran grew up.
He graduated from the University of Tulsa with a BA and MA in English, received his MFA in fiction at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and then finished his PhD in English and creative writing at the Black Mountain Institute at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where he was a Glenn Schaeffer Fellow in Fiction. Since 2010, he has been teaching literature and fiction writing at the University of Chicago, where he directs the undergraduate program in creative writing.

Awards

Novels

Other publications