Ocean Vuong is the author of the critically acclaimed poetry collections
Night Sky with Exit Wounds and
Time is a Mother, as well as the
New York Times bestselling novel
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous. A recipient of the 2019 MacArthur "Genius" Grant, he is also the winner of the Whiting Award and the
T.S. Eliot Prize. His writings have been featured in
The Atlantic,
Harper's Magazine,
The Nation,
The New Republic,
The New Yorker, and
The New York Times. Born in Saigon, Vietnam, he currently lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.
