Alma mater Brooklyn College CUNY Education Brooklyn College Role Poet | Name Ocean Vuong Genre Poetry, Essays Books No, Burnings | |
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Born October 14, 1988 (age 35)
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam ( 1988-10-14 ) Notable awards Ruth Lilly/Sargent Rosenberg fellowship; The Pushcart Prize | ||
Ocean vuong performs head first
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.
Contents
- Ocean vuong performs head first
- Ocean vuong s no one knows the way to heaven
- Personal life
- Career
- Awards and fellowships
- References
Ocean vuong s no one knows the way to heaven
Personal life
Vuong was born in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam on a rice farm in 1988 and immigrated to Hartford, Connecticut, United States along with six relatives in 1990. Vuong did not learn to read until the age of eleven.
He currently lives in Astoria, Queens, in New York City. Vuong is openly gay.
Career
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.