Background
Vu Tran was born in Saigon, Vietnam in 1975 and grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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He graduated from the University of Tulsa with an Master of Arts, from the Iowa Writers’ hop with an Master of Fine Arts, and from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas as a Glenn Schaeffer Fellow in Fiction with a Doctor of Philosophy
Career
Tran"s debut novel, Dragonfish: A Novel, was released in 2015. His work has appeared in the Southern Review, Glimmer Train Stories, Harvard Review, Fence Magazine, Michigan Quarterly Review, Nimrod, Interim, and Antioch Review. He currently teaches creative writing at the University of Chicago.
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Vietnamese American
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Whiting award; Lawrence Foundation Prize; Henry Prize Stories 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 StoriesWhiting award; Lawrence Foundation Prize; Henry Prize Stories 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