Ocean Vuong Biography

Ocean Vuong is the author of the critically acclaimed poetry collection 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. A Ruth Lilly fellow from the Poetry Foundation his honors include fellowships from the Lannan Foundation the Civitella Ranieri Foundation The Elizabeth George Foundation The Academy of American Poets and the Pushcart Prize. Vuong's writings have been featured in The Atlantic Harpers The Nation New Republic The New Yorker The New York Times The Village Voice and American Poetry Review which awarded him the Stanley Kunitz Prize for Younger Poets. Selected by Foreign Policy magazine as a 2016 100 Leading Global Thinker alongside Hillary Clinton Ban Ki-Moon and Justin Trudeau Ocean was also named by BuzzFeed Books as one of 32 Essential Asian American Writers

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