Vu Tran is a novelist and a short story writer who teaches fiction writing and other topics like migration narratives, Gothic fiction, and film adaptation. His fiction primarily concerns the Vietnamese diaspora in America and the ongoing and inherited effects of displacement—specifically its muddling of memory and the self, of domestic and interracial bonds, and of the Vietnamese as well as American identity. His first novel, Dragonfish (2015), was a New York Times Notable Book, and his second novel, “Your Origins,” is forthcoming from WW Norton. Tran is Associate Professor of Practice in the Arts in the Creative Writing Program in the Department of English Language and Literature and the College at the University of Chicago.
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