Trang Thanh Tran

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. It was nominated for the Lodestar Award in 2026 and the Ignyte Award for Outstanding Novel – Young Adult .

Their third novel, The Summoning of Tess Pham is set to release in 2027. They have two elderly cats.

Publications She Is a Haunting (2023) They Bloom at Night (2025)