Trang Thanh Tran
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- She Is a Haunting
- They Bloom at Night
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| Notable awards | Bram Stoker Award for Best Young Adult Novel (2023) |
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Trang Thanh Tran is a Vietnamese-American young adult horror author.[1]
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, but then dropped out to pursue a writing career.
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]
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
Publications
- She Is a Haunting (2023)
- They Bloom at Night (2025)
