Dragonfish

Vu Hoang Tran was born in 1975 in Saigon, Vietnam, and fled the country with his family by boat in 1980, eventually settling in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He is a Vietnamese American novelist and short story writer whose debut novel Dragonfish (2015) was a New York Times Notable Book. He holds degrees from the University of Tulsa, Iowa Writers' Workshop, and University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and teaches at the University of Chicago.