Ocean Vuong is a writer, professor, and photographer and the author of On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, winner of the American Book Award and The Mark Twain Award. The novel debuted for six weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and has since sold more than a million copies in 40 languages. A nominee for the National Book Award and a recipient of a MacArthur “Genius” Grant, he is also the author of the poetry collections Time is a Mother, a finalist for the Griffin prize, and Night Sky with Exit Wounds, a New York Times Top 10 Book and winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize. Born in Saigon, Vietnam, and raised in Hartford, Connecticut, in a working-class family of nail salon and factory laborers, he currently splits his time between Northampton, Massachusetts, and New York City, where he serves as a professor in modern poetry and poetics in the MFA Program at New York University.
Ocean Vuong
