Trang Thanh Tran is a Vietnamese-American queer horror author.
Tran grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and later in small town Louisiana. Their parents were part of the Vietnamese boat people.
Tran's debut novel She Is a Haunting won the 2023 Bram Stoker Award for Best Young Adult Novel, was a finalist for the William C. Morris Award, was featured on the American Library Association Rainbow Book List, and is a New York Times bestseller. The novel follows Jade Nguyen as she visits her estranged father in Vietnam, where she is haunted by the ghost of a bride and is paralyzed by her father's haunted house every night.
Tran's second novel They Bloom at Night was released in 2025.
Their novel The Summoning of Tess Pham is set to release in 2027.