found: Wikipedia, 02-26-2015:(Vu Tran; full name: Vu Hoang Tran; b. in Saigon, 1975; grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma; graduated from the University of Tulsa with an MA, from the Iowa Writers' Workshop with an MFA, and from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas as a Glenn Schaeffer Fellow in Fiction with a Ph.D; his work has appeared in the Southern Review, Glimmer Train Stories, Harvard Review, Fence Magazine, Michigan Quarterly Review, Nimrod, Interim, and Antioch Review; he currently teaches creative writing at the University of Chicago; winner of several writing awards: 2011 Finalist Award - Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Literature, 2009 Whiting Writers' Award, 2004 Lawrence Foundation Prize from the Michigan Quarterly Review, 2003 Short-Story Award for New Writers from Glimmer Train Stories)
