Ocean Vuong

Author

Ocean Vuong was born in Saigon, Vietnam, and currently resides in Northampton, Massachusetts, where he serves as an Assistant Professor in the MFA Program for Poets and Writers at Umass-Amherst. He is the author of the critically acclaimed Night Sky With Exit Wounds, a New York Times Top 10 Book of 2016, winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize, the Whiting Award, the Thom Gunn Award, and the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. His debut novel, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous will be published by Penguin Press in 2019.