Ky-Phong Tran is an award-winning writer and journalist from Long Beach, California. At the end of the Vietnam War, he and his family fled to the United States as political refugees--his mother was five months pregnant with him at the time. After graduating from Long Beach Poly High School, he earned a BA in history and an MA in Asian American Studies from UCLA. After working as a teacher, legislative aide, and non-profit coordinator, he returned to school and received his MFA in Creative Writing from UC Riverside. As a columnist for the Nguoi Viet Daily News, he has won two New America Media awards. For his work in fiction, he has been awarded a Rose/de Filippis Scholarship to the Napa Valley Writers Conference, a Max C. Byrd Scholarship to the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley, and a Maxwell H. Gluck Fellowship in the Arts. He is working on a short story collection set within the Vietnamese diaspora and a novel about colonial students in Paris.