User:JKizzieHumanities/Chrysanthemum Tran

Chrysanthemum Tran is a Vietnamese-American transfeminine poet, writer, performer, educator, and artist from South Kingstown, Rhode Island. Tran is the first transfeminine finalist at the Women of the World Poetry Slam, and is a leader and organizer of Providence Poetry Slam. Tran's work has made her a "queer POC icon."

Tran grew up in the American South, the child of refugees. Tran moved to Rhode Island attended Brown University and graduated in 2017. During her time at Brown, she was part of the Brown University/RISD Slam Poetry Team.

Tran's work explores themes of language, history, and their personal experience. In her own words, her work explores “the intersections of Vietnamese diaspora and transgender dysphoria.”

Tran has been a guest speaker at the University of Chicago Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture, a poet performer at Harvard University, and her work has been featured by the New York Times.

Awards
Finalist at the Women of the World Poetry Slam, 2016

Best Poet, National College Slam, 2016

Slam Champion Rustbelt Poetry Slam 2016

Pink Door Fellowship, 2016

Slam Champion 2017 FEMS Poetry Slam.

MacColl Johnson Fellowship, 2019.

Notablity (for Talk page)
Per WP:CREATIVE, this artist has 4c. "won significant critical attention"