Trang Thanh Tran

Trang Thanh Tran
Tran at the 2023 National Book Festival
OccupationNovelist
Writing career
Notable works
Notable awardsBram Stoker Award for Best Young Adult Novel (2023)
Websitetrangthanhtran.com

Trang Thanh Tran is a Vietnamese-American young adult horror author.[1]

Biography

Tran grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and later in a small town in southern Louisiana.[2][3]. They[a] grew up in a large family. Their parents were part of the Vietnamese boat people, and their father was a shrimper.[5] They studied sociology and public health.

Career

Tran's debut novel She Is a Haunting won the 2023 Bram Stoker Award for Best Young Adult Novel,[6] was a finalist for the William C. Morris Award,[7] was featured on the American Library Association Rainbow Book List,[8] and is a New York Times bestseller.[9][10] The novel follows Jade Nguyen as she visits her estranged father in Vietnam, where she is haunted by the ghost of a bride and is paralyzed by her father's haunted house every night.[2][11]

Tran's second novel They Bloom at Night was released in 2025.[12] It centers a teenager whose coastal town is being overtaken by a sinister red algae bloom. It was nominated for the Lodestar Award in 2026[13] and the Ignyte Award for Outstanding Novel – Young Adult[14].

Their third novel, The Summoning of Tess Pham is set to release in 2027.[1] It will center a depressed teenager who goes to Vietnam to bury her brother, only to awaken a demon who hunts down her, her sister, and her friends.[3]

Personal life

Tran lives in Atlanta.[15] They have two elderly cats.

Publications

Notes

  1. ↑ Tran uses the pronouns they/them and she/her.[4] This article uses they/them for consistency.

References

  1. 1 2 "Trang Thanh Tran". Jill Grinberg Literary Management. Retrieved March 29, 2026.
  2. 1 2 Kirichanskaya, Michele (April 14, 2023). "Interview with Author Trang Thanh Tran". Geeks OUT. Archived from the original on November 7, 2025. Retrieved October 1, 2025.
  3. 1 2 "Trang Thanh Tran explores identity and transformation in They Bloom at Night". ReadingZone. Retrieved April 11, 2026.
  4. ↑ Tran, Trang Thanh. "About". Trang Thanh Tran. Retrieved April 12, 2026.
  5. ↑ Crump, Andy. "Trang Thanh Tran finds optimism after the end of the world". JoySauce. Retrieved April 11, 2026.
  6. ↑ "The 2023 Bram Stoker Awards® Winners". Bram Stoker Awards. Retrieved October 1, 2025.
  7. ↑ "American Library Association announces 2024 Youth Media Award winners". American Library Association. January 22, 2024. Retrieved March 29, 2026.
  8. ↑ West, Isaiah (February 1, 2024). "The 2024 Rainbow Book List". Rainbow Book List. Archived from the original on June 18, 2025. Retrieved October 1, 2025.
  9. ↑ "Trang Thanh Tran on She Is a Haunting". Bloomsbury. April 6, 2023. Archived from the original on March 23, 2025. Retrieved October 1, 2025.
  10. ↑ Egan, Elisabeth (March 16, 2023). "Trang Thanh Tran Has a Song for That". The New York Times. Archived from the original on November 23, 2024. Retrieved October 1, 2025.
  11. ↑ Adler, Dahlia (December 19, 2022). "Most Anticipated Young Adult Books: January-June 2023". LGBTQ Reads. Retrieved October 1, 2025.
  12. ↑ "Trang Thanh Tran". Louisiana Book Festival. Retrieved March 29, 2026.
  13. ↑ "2026 Hugo, Lodestar & Astounding Awards Finalists". Locus. April 21, 2026. Retrieved April 22, 2026.
  14. ↑ "2026 Ignyte Awards Finalists". Locus Online. June 8, 2026. Retrieved June 8, 2026.
  15. ↑ "Hauntings and Homes: A Q&A with Trang Thanh Tran". The Dark Academicals Book Club. Retrieved April 11, 2026.
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