Background
Ocean Vuong was born Vinh Quoc Vuong on October 14, 1988, in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. He immigrated to Hartford, Connecticut, United States with six relatives in 1990 after spending a year in a refugee camp in the Philippines.
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Ocean Vuong with his mother
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Ocean Vuong aged two with his aunt and mother at a Philippines refugee camp
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Ocean Vuong with his book
Northampton, Massachusetts, United States
Ocean Vuong at home in Northampton, Massachusetts
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Ocean Vuong at his working place
2900 Bedford Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11210, United States
Vuong received his Bachelor of Arts in Nineteenth Century English Literature at Brooklyn College.
(The poems of BURNINGS explore refugee culture, be the spe...)
The poems of BURNINGS explore refugee culture, be the speaker a literal refugee from a torn homeland, or a refugee from his own skin, burning with the heat of awakening eroticism. In this world, we're all refugees from something.
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2010
(It is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Wr...)
It is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family’s history that began before he was born — a history whose epicenter is rooted in Vietnam — and serves as a doorway into parts of his life his mother has never known, all of it leading to an unforgettable revelation.
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2019
Ocean Vuong was born Vinh Quoc Vuong on October 14, 1988, in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. He immigrated to Hartford, Connecticut, United States with six relatives in 1990 after spending a year in a refugee camp in the Philippines.
Vuong received his Bachelor of Arts in Nineteenth Century English Literature at Brooklyn College, where he studied under the tutelage of poet and novelist Ben Lerner.
Ocean Vuong started writing poems while studying at university. His 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.
Vuong's first chapbook, Burnings, was published in 2011 and was "Over The Rainbow" selection for notable LGBTQ books by the American Library Association. His second chapbook, No, was released in 2013. His debut full-length collection, Night Sky With Exit Wounds, was released by Copper Canyon Press in 2016. It was winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize, the Whiting Award, the Thom Gunn Award, and the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. Ocean's first novel, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, was published by Penguin Press on June 4, 2019. He has also been profiled on NPR’s “All Things Considered,” PBS NewsHour, Teen Vogue, VICE, The Fantastic Man, and The New Yorker. Currently Vuong is an Assistant Professor in the MFA Program for Writers at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
(The poems of BURNINGS explore refugee culture, be the spe...)
2010(It is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Wr...)
2019After learning the definition of the word ocean - as a body of water which connects the United States and Vietnam - Vuong's mother renamed him Ocean.
Vuong is openly gay and lives with his parter at Northampton, Massachusetts.