Chrysanthemum Tran

Chrysanthemum Tran is a Vietnamese American poet, writer, and performer based in Rhode Island.

[1] In 2019, Tran was awarded $25,000 to complete her first collection of poems and develop a poetry symposium in Wakefield, Rhode Island.

Due to learning English as a second language and having a lisp and a stutter, Tran was put into speech therapy as a child.

As a freshman at Brown, Tran involved herself in activism on campus, organizing students and activists against a lecture by NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly, who is known for his hyper-surveillance of Muslim people and for developing the stop-and-frisk policy.

Tran represented Brown University at College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational for three years.

In 2019, Tran and Gaines were hired to star in and produce a spoken word show by the American Repertory Theater at the Oberon in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Tran argues that when Stonewall is discussed, the "lifelong care work of organizing and activism" of those involved is typically erased, especially the efforts of transgender women like Marsha P. Johnson, Sylvia Rivera, and Miss Major Griffin Gracy.