Vu Tran

Vu Tran’s first novel, Dragonfish (W.W. Norton, 2015), was a New York Times Notable Book. He is the recipient of a Whiting Award and an National Endowment of the Art Fellowship, and his short fiction has appeared in the O. Henry Prize Stories, the Best American Mystery Stories, and other publications. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the Black Mountain Institute in Las Vegas, he is currently a criticism columnist for the Virginia Quarterly Review and an Assistant Professor of Practice in the Arts in Creative Writing at the University of Chicago, where he is Director of Undergraduate Studies in Creative Writing.