Nina Tran is a calligrapher based in sunny Los Angeles, California.

She was introduced to formal calligraphy in 2015 and has not put the pen down since! Her passion and enthusiasm to learn calligraphy and penmanship is what propels her to teach.

She currently teaches both in-person and online classes in Copperplate, Spencerian, Pointed Pen Flourishing, Monoline Foundational, Monoline Italic, Gothic Textura & Fraktur, and Gothicized Italic. She has taught for the Society for Calligraphy, Pacific Scribes, Coastal Calligraphers Guild, Michigan Association of Calligraphy, Idaho Inkspots, Letters California Style (2019), Legacies III (2020), The Gentle Penman, and the Art of Letters.

Since 2016, she has conducted over 200 live Q&A sessions via Instagram. You can tune in every Wednesday from 6:30 to 7:00 a.m. (Pacific Time). She also hosts meetups at Smitten on Paper in Monrovia, CA every 3-4 months.

When she is not writing letters, she enjoys playing board games with her family, long quiet walks, bookbinding, and bullet journaling.