E.M. Tran is a Vietnamese American author with an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Mississippi and a PhD in English and Creative Writing from Ohio University. Her fiction has been published in Joyland, Little Fiction, Territory, Complete Sentence, and her nonfiction has been published in Harvard Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, New Ohio Review, and Thrillist. Tran’s work has received the Glenna Luschei Award, the Prairie Schooner Nonfiction Award, and was listed as a Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2018.