About


Andrina Tran

Writer. Editor. Historian.

Andrina Tran is a ghostwriter, editor, and historical consultant for the publishing industry’s most distinguished clients, from academics to actors to CEOs. Her portfolio spans a wide range of genres: American and European history, memoir, biography, fiction, business, and cultural criticism. Projects on which she’s been involved have landed on bestseller lists and been covered by the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, New Yorker, Wall Street Journal, Variety Magazine, Vanity Fair, USA Today, CNN, NBC, NPR, and PBS — among others.

Prior to creating her consulting business, Tran gained over a decade of experience teaching at both the high school and college levels. She received Yale’s prestigious Prize Teaching Fellowship for “outstanding performance and promise as a teacher.” In addition to her popular seminar at Yale on the conservative intellectual tradition, Tran has taught diverse courses on American political, economic, cultural, and environmental history, as well as European intellectual history. This versatile background informs Tran’s expertise in coaching writers to find their voices and deepen their storytelling.

Tran is a graduate of Yale (2018, PhD, History, distinction) and UC Berkeley (2009, BA, History, Peace & Conflict Studies, summa cum laude). After finishing her doctorate, she earned a screenwriting certificate from UCLA.