Settling on Vuong’s On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, it didn’t take me long to fall deeply in love with his prose, and my introduction to his work came at the perfect time. And yet, I wasn’t aware of this talented young writer until I found myself digging through my sister’s pile of books early into lockdown at the start of the year. His star was well and truly on the rise prior to his poetry collection, Night Sky With Exit Wounds, being published in 2016. To mention just a few: His poetry has been likened to that of Emily Dickinson and Gerard Manley Hopkins, and he has won a Whiting Award and a T.S Elliot Prize. Ocean Vuong is an award-winning writer and poet who has garnered some of the highest literary praise for his work. Contact us for more information about booking Ocean Vuong for your next event.“We often tell our students, “The future’s in your hands.” But I think the future is actually in your mouth.” - Ocean Vuong on The On Being Project Selected by Foreign Policy magazine as a 2016 “Leading Global Thinker,” alongside Hillary Clinton, Ban Ki-Moon and Justin Trudeau, Vuong was also named an “Essential Asian American Writer” by Buzzfeed Books and has been profiled by NPR’s “All Things Considered,” PBS’s NewsHour, Teen Vogue, Vice, The Fantastic Man, and The New Yorker.īorn in Saigon, Vietnam, Ocean Vuong was raised in Hartford, CT and now lives in Northampton, MA, where he serves as an Assistant Professor in the MFA Program for Poets and Writers at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Ocean Vuong’s writing has been featured in The Atlantic, Harpers, The Nation, New Republic, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Village Voice, and the American Poetry Review. In 2019 he was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship, the youngest recipient of the grant in that years class.In 2019 he was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship, the youngest recipient of the grant in that year’s class He is also the winner of the Whiting Award, the Thom Gunn Award, the Stanley Kunitz Prize for Younger Poets, and the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. In his moving talks, he asks audiences to consider the value of silence in the creative process and the unique power of marginalized voices.Ī Ruth Lilly fellow from the Poetry Foundation, Vuong’s 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 erupted on to the literary scene in 2016 with his first poetry collection, Night Sky with Exit Wounds, for which he became only the second debut poet to win the T.S. Framed as a letter from a son to his mother, this shattering portrait of family, first love, and the redemptive power of storytelling asks how to survive, how to find joy in darkness, and the meaning of American identity-questions that power the most important debut novel of many years. His New York Times-bestselling novel, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, is an evocative coming-of-age epistolary and lyrical work of self-discovery and diaspora. Ocean Vuong’s striking body of work contains timeless themes of class, queerness, and identity.
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