Truong Tran is a poet, visual artist, and teacher born in Saigon, Vietnam. His books include Book of the Other: Small in Comparison, winner of the American Book Award, The Book of Perceptions, Placing the Accents, Dust and Conscience, Within the Margins, Four Letter Words, 100 words, Looking and Seeing/Seeing and Looking, the children's book Going Home Coming Home, and an artist monograph, I Meant To Say Please Past the Sugar. He is the recipient of the Poetry Center Prize, the Fund for Poetry Grant, the California Arts Council Grant, and numerous San Francisco Arts Commission Grants. Truong is also a visual artist who believes that art, be it poetry, cooking, sculpting, and even gardening, are his ways of thinking through the conscious of the times we live in. Truong teaches at Northeastern University, Oakland and lives in San Francisco.