His 2012 TEDx talk “Grammar, Identity, and the Dark Side of the Subjunctive” was featured on NPR’s Ted Radio Hour. Most recently, he taught Latin, Greek, and German at the Waynflete School in Portland, Maine. He taught Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit in New York at the Collegiate School and was an instructor at Brooklyn College’s Summer Latin Institute. Tran graduated Bard College in 1995 with a BA in Classics and received the Callanan Classics Prize. Check out more on this episode and follow Phuc Tran on IG Tran has been a high school Latin teacher for more than twenty years while also simultaneously establishing himself as a highly sought-after tattooer in the Northeast. He explaied how seeking therapy played a role in being able to write his story while healing the wounds from his turbulent past with his parents. I spoke with Phuc back in late December to discuss his struggles with assimilation in a rural white community, his father's abuse. Last Spring, he released his award-winning memoir, "Sigh, Gone" which traced back to his upbringing in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in the 80s and early 90s after his family fled from Vietnam after the war. (S4, EP 12) Viet-American best-selling and critically acclaimed author Phuc Tran joined me for the Season 4 finale for this episode. Trigger Warning: Discussions of child abuse
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