The Haircut

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.