Elise Thi Tran (she/her) is a Vietnamese-Filipina-American writer based in Chicago. She is the 2022 First Pages Prize winner, a Chicago Literary Club Collyer Fellow, and a fiction judge for NYC Midnight. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Blackbird, diode, Rejected Lit, SAND, Salt Hill, Shō, and elsewhere. Find Elise on Instagram @elise.tran