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, Gothic Textura & Fraktur, Gothicized Italic, Gothic Cursive, and Monoline Foundational, Italic, and Stunt Roman. She has taught for the Society for Calligraphy, Pacific Scribes, Coastal Calligraphers Guild, Michigan Association of Calligraphy, The Colleagues of Calligraphy, Ocala Calligraphy Guild, Idaho Inkspots, Society for Calligraphy & Handwriting, Letters California Style, Legacies III, The Gentle Penman, the Art of Letters, Washington Calligraphers Guild, Calligraphy Italia, Have Pens Will Dazzle, Portalnd Society for Calligraphy, Edmonton Calligraphic Society, West Coast Calligraphy Society, and IAMPETH.

Since 2016, she has conducted over 400 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 two to three times a year.

When she is not fiddling with letters, she enjoys reading, sketching, journaling, knitting and going for long walks.