Elise Thi Tran is a Vietnamese Filipina American writer and poet. She is a Chicago Literary Club Collyer Fellow (2021–24) and a fiction judge for NYC Midnight. Tran’s manuscript in progress, Dredged from the Courtyard Pond, won the 2022 First Pages Prize. Her nonfiction, poetry, and visual work appears or is forthcoming in Apogee, Blackbird, diode, the minnesota review, River Styx, Salt Hill, TIMBER, and elsewhere.
Nonfiction
Fall 2024
The Haircut
The Kenyon Review · “Dissection of my Grandmother’s Eye” by Acadia Reynolds I watch my father roll Bà nội into the courtyard to cut her hair in the warmth of […]