Vu Tran

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Vu Tran
Born	1975 (age 45–46) Saigon, Vietnam
Occupation	Novelist, writer
Genre	Fiction

Vu Hoang Tran (born 1975; Vietnamese name: Trần Hoàng Vũ) is a Vietnamese American writer. His debut novel, Dragonfish, was released in 2015.^[1]

Life[]

Vu Tran was born in Saigon in 1975, and grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He graduated from the University of Tulsa with an MA, from the Iowa Writers' Workshop with an MFA, and from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas as a Glenn Schaeffer Fellow in Fiction with a PhD.^{[citation needed]}

His work has appeared in the Southern Review, Glimmer Train Stories, Harvard Review, Fence Magazine, Michigan Quarterly Review, Nimrod, Interim, and Antioch Review.^{[2][better source needed]}

He currently teaches creative writing at the University of Chicago.^[3]

Awards[]

• 2011 Finalist Award – Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Literature
• 2009 Whiting Award
• 2004 Lawrence Foundation Prize from the Michigan Quarterly Review
• 2003 Short-Story Award for New Writers from Glimmer Train Stories

Works[]

• "The Other Country". Harvard Review. Harvard University. 28. Spring 2005.
• "Vespertine". FiveChapters. 2010. Retrieved August 26, 2015.

Books[]

• Dragonfish (W. W. Norton, 2015)

Anthologies[]

• Susan Burmeister-Brown; Linda Swanson-Davies, eds. (November 1, 2002). "Monsoon". Glimmer Train Stories, #45. Glimmer Train Press. ISBN 978-1-880966-44-0.
• Laura Furman, ed. (2007). "The Gift of Years". The O. Henry Prize Stories 2007. Random House, Inc. ISBN 978-0-307-27688-9.
  • Rebecca Wolff, ed. (2009). "The Gift of Years". A Best of Fence, The First Nine Years. Fence Books. ISBN 978-1-93420-006-3.
• Jarret Keene & Todd James Pierce, ed. (2008). "This or Any Desert". Las Vegas Noir. Akashic Books. ISBN 978-1-93335-449-1.
  • Jeffery Deaver, ed. (2009). "This or Any Desert". Best American Mystery Stories 2009. Mariner Books. ISBN 978-0-54723-750-3.

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