Vu Tran’s short stories have appeared in Harvard Review, Southern Review, Glimmer Train and the Antioch Review, among other publications, and have been selected for inclusion in the 2007 O. Henry Prize Stories, Best American Mystery Stories 2009, “The Best of Fence: The First Nine Years,” and “Las Vegas Noir.”
Born in Vietnam and a refugee at the age of five, he and his family were relocated to Oklahoma where he grew up and earned a B.A. and M.A. from the University of Tulsa. He also has an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a Ph.D. as a Glenn Schaeffer Fellow at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
A recipient of the 2009 Whiting Writers Award, he writes often of Vietnamese and Vietnamese-Americans and of the immigration experience. His first novel is forthcoming from W.W. Norton.
He currently teaches at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
