Vu Tran

Vu Tran is the author of Dragonfish—a NYT Notable Book and a San Francisco Chronicle Best Books of the Year—and a forthcoming novel, Your Origins. His other writing has appeared in publications like the O. Henry Prize Stories, Best American Mystery Stories, Ploughshares, and Virginia Quarterly, and he guest-edited McSweeney’s Issue #78: The Make Believers. He is also the recipient of a Whiting Award and fellowships from the NEA, MacDowell, Yaddo, and Bread Loaf. Born in Vietnam and raised in Oklahoma, Vu completed his MFA at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and his PhD at the Black Mountain Institute in Las Vegas, and is an Associate Professor of Practice at the University of Chicago, where he directs undergraduate studies in creative writing.

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