Vu Hoang Tran (born 1975; Vietnamese name: Trần, Hoàng Vũ) is a Vietnamese American writer.

[1] Vu Hoang Tran was born in Saigon in 1975, and grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

He 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 PhD.

[citation needed] His work has appeared in The Southern Review, Glimmer Train Stories, Harvard Review, Fence Magazine, Michigan Quarterly Review, Nimrod, Interim, and The Antioch Review.

[2][better source needed] He currently teaches creative writing at the University of Chicago.