Ocean Vuong
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Ocean Vuong in 2014
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| Born |
October 14, 1988 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam |
| Alma mater | Brooklyn College, City University of New York |
| Genre | poetry, essays |
| Notable awards | Ruth Lilly/Sargent Rosenberg fellowship; The Pushcart Prize |
Ocean Vuong (born October 14, 1988) is an American poet and essayist. He is a recipient of the 2014 Ruth Lilly/Sargent Rosenberg fellowship from the Poetry Foundation and a 2016 Whiting Award for his poetry.
Vuong was born in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam in 1988 and immigrated to the United States in 1990.
He currently lives in Astoria, Queens, in New York City. Vuong is openly gay.
Vuong received his B.A. in Nineteenth Century English Literature at Brooklyn College, within the City University of New York system, where he studied under poet and novelist Ben Lerner.
His poems and essays have been published in various journals, including Poetry,The Nation,Tri-Quarterly,Guernica,The Rumpus,Boston Review, and Narrative Magazine.
His first chapbook, Burnings (Sibling Rivalry Press), was a 2011 “Over The Rainbow” selection for notable LGBTQ books by the American Library Association. His second chapbook, No (YesYes Books), was released in 2013.
His debut full-length collection, Night Sky With Exit Wounds, was released by Copper Canyon Press in 2016; as of April that year, the publisher ran a second printing.
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