Vu Tran is a novelist and short story writer whose research interests include the craft and aesthetics of fiction writing, genre, and migration narratives. His recent creative work explores the immigrant narrative through the framework of popular genre fiction. He is the author of the novel, Dragonfish (Norton, 2015), and his short fiction and nonfiction have appeared in the O. Henry Prize Stories, the Best American Mystery Stories, Ploughshares, Virginia Quarterly, and other publications. The winner of a Whiting Writers’ Award, he has also received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, MacDowell, Yaddo, and Bread Loaf. He is Associate Professor of Practice in the Creative Writing Program in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Chicago.