UTA student wins UT System Regents award
Short story winnerUTA senior Frederick Tran won the 2017 Regents’ Outstanding Arts and Humanities Award in Creative Writing, Short Fiction. The winning selection, “Airstrikes,” is a short fiction piece about a doctor serving with Médecins Sans Frontières in Yemen, who suffered a terrible loss. MSF, also known as Doctors Without Borders, is an international humanitarian organization best recognized for its projects in war-torn regions. News stories about bombings of MSF hospitals in Yemen were Tran’s inspiration for his short story. Tran typically prefers to write non-fiction