An Tran is a writer and athlete. His fiction and nonfiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Gargoyle Magazine, The Carolina Quarterly, Big Lucks, The Kartika Review, Connotation Press, and elsewhere. He has won four state records and competes nationally in powerlifting, practices and coaches parkour, and studies a long list of martial and acrobatic arts. He is an MFA candidate at Queens University of Charlotte and lives in Alexandria, VA.