Trang Thanh Tran

this book sent me to therapy ✨ twice ✨ For every reader who saw themself in Noon or went along for the wild ride in these salt-soaked pages, I'm getting a little braver. It's all been worth it. They Bloom at Night is the perfect Halloween read, as an algae-ridden sea takes over a small coastal town in the South, where a non-binary teen who's thrived in this "apocalypse" exposes the true monsters that lurk among us. Think Annihilation meets Speak! Please buy or request a copy at your local library. If you've read and liked it, please leave a review where others might find it or recommend to a friend! . . . . #TheyBloomatNight #TrangThanhTran #author #bookstagram #horror #halloween #spooky #horrorbooks #yabooks #queerbooks

Happy book birthday to my second child! They Bloom at Night is about a queer teen’s survival in a post-apocalyptic world full of red algae, where past traumas may be more horrifying the present’s. Forced to hunt the creatures drowning her neighbors, Noon makes new friends and remeets the old, all the while shedding her own skin. It’s my ode to the south, immigrant families, beautiful anime, and becoming your true self against all odds. Writing this book made me get the help I needed and as it finds its way to readers, I feel myself able to let go. This story is yours now. It might sound serious but there’s plenty of hijinks in the book and ofc a cat named Sandbag. The future is soup. 🍜 Pick it up at a store near you or request at your local library! Links and events info in bio. . . . . . #TheyBloomatNight #TrangThanhTran #bookrec #bookish #bookstagram #spooky #horrorbooks #yabooks #queerbooks #VietnameseAmerican #indienext #authorlife #writingcommunity #newrelease #booktour

TBAN is on next to WHOMS on the Lodestar Award finalist list?! I’m honored to be nominated with incredible authors for Best YA Novel, which will be announced alongside Hugo Awards in August! They Bloom at Night is a cli-fi horror about queer teens surviving in a town overtaken by red algae and strange creatures in the water, though it’s the monsters on land that should be feared. It’s my bittersweet love letter to the Louisiana coastal town I lived in. As they say in the book: The future is soup. #LodestarAward #hugoaward #bookrec

May 2 | 10am - 4pm | Broad Commons Park Listen to a variety of award-winning and bestselling authors discuss their works, writing process, and industry insights. We will have two tents jam-packed with incredible panelists this year. 🎪📚📖 All the Feels: Writing Young Adult 🥰😩😎 TENT 1: 10:00am - 10:45am For the young and the young at heart, young adult fiction has become a place to explore all those feelings of early adulthood, including loss, love, and self-discovery. Join this conversation between three successful YA authors De Elizabeth, Laura Genn, and Trang Thanh Tran, as they discuss how they bring those emotions to literary life on the page.​ ​The Group Chat Made Us Read It 🏘️💬 TENT 2: 10:00am - 10:45am Nothing brings a group of friends together faster than an unputdownable book recommendation. Join this panel of three bestselling and chatworthy authors Lee Kelly, Timothy Janovsky, and Tom Vellner, to find out about the next novels all your friends will be talking about. ​ ​10:45am: Join our panelists as they sign copies of their books after each discussion. Each signing will last 30 minutes. Books will be available for sale at the festival bookstore hosted by The Doylestown and Lahaska Bookshops. A portion of each book sale will support the Bucks County Book Festival. ✍️

🪼 A TOP TEN FINALIST IN YA FOR A LOCUS AWARD 🪼 Look at them go! Thank you to everyone who voted and ofc thank you to the booksellers who championed this book at their stores! Summer’s coming which means it’s an even more perfect time to pick up this story at your local indie about a non-binary’s teen survival during one algae-ridden summer in a dying coastal town where the monsters lurk underwater—and in plain sight. #yabooks #horrorbooks #queerbooks #bookstagram

Congratulations to our winners of the 2026 Indies Choice Book Awards!!! 📚🎉 Booksellers from over 3,000 independent bookstores across the country chose @katemessner ’s THE TROUBLE WITH HEROES as their favorite middle grade and @nvtran_ ’s THEY BLOOM AT NIGHT as their favorite Young Adult book! Scroll -> to see what booksellers have said and then hop over to your own local indie to grab a copy! 🎉 #indiebooksellers #indiebookstores #welovebooksellers #thetroublewithheroes #theybloomatnight

signs of life??? Wow I have not been good at updating this. Anyway, spring: my birthday, They Bloom at Night turning 1, traveling. Over the last few months, I also finished revising another book, The Summoning of Tess Pham, which you can add on StoryGraph and GR if you’ve ever thought about fist-fighting any of your ancestors. I am writing another book. It’s gonna be wild and gross and I am VERY excited. But what’s keeping me going these days is friends dragging me out, concerts, music and seeing some gd nature. Sunlight is good for you; who knew?

🥀Swipe to unwrap🥀 . Thank you so much to @bloomsburybooksus @bloomsburypublishing and @nvtran_ for this gifted copy of She Is A Haunting! I’ve been absolutely dying to read this and I’m so excited to have this copy in my grubby lil paws. . . . . #bloomsburycreatorcircle #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #sheisahaunting

They Bloom at Night has had a YEAR. Many thanks to readers and booksellers who made these accolades possible: a NPR Best Book of 2025, a Libro Bookseller Choice Award, shortlist for B&N’s Book Awards, and a 2025 Booklist Editors’ Choice. They Bloom at Night is a YA eco-horror about a queer teen living in a conservative coastal town that’s being taken over by red algae. When her neighbors start to disappear, Noon—an experienced shrimper—is forced to work with her enemy’s daughter to hunt the monsters hiding in the town’s watery depths—and in plain sight. It’s the perfect book for readers of spooky and/or emotionally resonant stories! . . . . #TheyBloomatNight #TrangThanhTran #bookish #bookstagram #bookrec #yabooks #horrorbooks

Thank you to all the booksellers who selected They Bloom at Night as the best audiobook for Young Readers in 2025 for @librofm !!!! @nhitendo did an INCREDIBLE job narrating this book to life with all its swampiness and teenage angst. Audiobooks make amazing gifts--check out all the choice awards at libro.fm! Get a loved one an audiobook membership <3 Here's what a bookseller had to say about TBAN: "A vengeful body horror thriller for assault survivors, trans kids, and the betrayed youth who are inheriting a damaged world. Rage, grief, and hope mixed with twists that had me gasping aloud." - Megan, Homeward Books Collective . . . . #TheyBloomatNight #TrangThanhTran #booksellers #booksellerchoice #bookrec #yabooks #horrorbooks #queerbooks

I am enormously proud to share They Bloom at Night is a Booklist Editors’ Choice 2025 for Youth! I opened Canva for this!!! Many times while writing TBAN, I thought I would never finish or it’d never become the kind of story I wanted it to be. Until the day it published, I wasn’t sure readers would get it. But yall do. 🖤 If you’re looking for an eco-horror read that grapples with gender, bodies, small towns and immigrant families, this one’s for you 🪼 . . . . . . #TheyBloomatNight #TrangThanhTran #booklist #ya #yabooks #queerbooks #horrorbooks #bookstagram

I love you, Portland!!! What a beautiful Saturday at the Portland Book Festival with incredible readers, @gayowyn and @megan_lally_ !! I felt so welcomed by the city and I also kinda wanna live there now. . . . . #PDXBookFest #yahorror #queerhorror #yabooks #bookstagrsm