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E.M. Tran

E.M. Tran is a Vietnamese American writer from New Orleans, Louisiana. Her stories, essays and reviews can be found in such places as Joyland magazine, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Thrillist and Harvard Review Online. Her essay for Prairie Schooner won their Summer Nonfiction Prize, a Glenna Luschei Award and was listed as a Notable Essay in The Best American Essays 2018. She completed her MFA at the University of Mississippi and a PhD in creative writing at Ohio University. Daughters of the New Year is her first novel.


Forty-Nine Days of Mourning: On Culture and Ritual at My Father’s Funeral

E.M. Tran Considers Disappearance and Preservation in Grief and Writing
October 12, 2022  By E.M. Tran
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