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Guest
Phuc Tran
Phuc Tran is a writer, tattooer, and classicist. His memoir SIGH, GONE (FLATIRON) won the 2020 New England Book Award for Nonfiction and the 2021 Maine Literary Award for Memoir. He has been a high school Latin teacher and a tattooer for over twenty years, for which he has won no awards. His TEDx talk “Grammar, Identity, and the Dark Side of the Subjunctive” was featured on NPR’s TED Radio Hour. He has a children’s book series in collaboration with bestselling illustrator Pete Oswald entitled CRANKY (HARPERCOLLINS). He is currently working on a novel that he is certain no one wants to read.