Trang Thanh Tran is a Vietnamese-American young adult horror author.
Biography Tran grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and later in a small town in southern Louisiana.. They grew up in a large family. Their parents were part of the Vietnamese boat people, and their father was a shrimper. 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, was a finalist for the William C. Morris Award, was featured on the American Library Association Rainbow Book List, and is a New York Times bestseller. 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.
Tran's second novel They Bloom at Night was released in 2025. It centers a teenager whose coastal town is being overtaken by a sinister red algae bloom. In 2026, They Bloom at Night was a finalist for the Lodestar Award. It won the 2026 Ignyte Award for Outstanding Novel – Young Adult.
Their third novel, The Summoning of Tess Pham is set to release in 2027. 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.
Personal life Tran lives in Atlanta. They have two elderly cats.
Publications She Is a Haunting (2023) They Bloom at Night (2025)
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