Vuong’s writing, in both his poetry and fiction, tends to focus on similar ideas or themes. He often focuses on connections between displacement, desire, and trauma passed down through …

Writer, professor, and photographer Ocean Vuong is the author of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, winner of the American Book Award, The Mark Twain Award, and The New England Book Award.

Born in Saigon, poet and editor Ocean Vuong was raised in Hartford, Connecticut, and earned a BA at Brooklyn College (CUNY). In his poems, he often explores transformation, desire, and violent loss.

Jun 5, 2025 · Novelist Ocean Vuong is one of the most celebrated authors of his generation. He's won a MacArthur "Genius" Grant, and his latest novel, The Emperor of Gladness, is a pick for the Oprah …

Ocean Vuong is an American writer whose work often explores war, trauma, queerness, and immigrant experience. His works include the poetry collection Night Sky with Exit Wounds (2016) and the …

May 3, 2025 · In 1990, he and his mother came to this country as refugees from Vietnam. They landed in small-town Connecticut and began muddling their way through an existence limited by low-paying …

By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) The Vietnamese-born American poet Ocean Vuong is one of the most exciting new poets to emerge in the last decade or so.

Hailed by BuzzFeed Books as one of “32 Essential Asian American Writers,” Ocean Vuong is a biographer of violence, dislocation, and an immigrant, queer America that carries trauma from other …

May 16, 2025 · In an age of instant output, poet and novelist Ocean Vuong takes the long way in. His latest novel, "The Emperor of Gladness," is a meditation on pain, unexpected acts of kindness, and a...

Vuong is the author of Time is a Mother (Penguin Press, 2022) and Night Sky with Exit Wounds (Copper Canyon Press, 2016), which received the 2017 Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection from the …