Ocean Vuong

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Ocean Vuong is the author of two chapbooks: No (YesYes Books, 2013) and Burnings (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2010), which was an American Library Association’s Over The Rainbow selection.

A winner of a 2014 Pushcart Prize, Ocean has received honors and awards from Kundiman, Poets House, The Elizabeth George Foundation, the Civitella Ranieri Foundation (Italy), the Saltonstall Foundation For the Arts, the Academy of American Poets, as well as the 2012 Stanley Kunitz Prize for Younger Poets. His poems appear in Poetry, The Nation, Boston Review, American Poetry Review, Guernica, Beloit Poetry Journal, and TriQuarterly, amongst others. Work has also been translated into Hindi, Korean, Vietnamese, and Russian.

Born in Saigon, Vietnam, he currently resides in New York City where he reads chapbook submissions as the managing editor of Thrush Press. He thinks you’re perfect.

Prize anthology mentions

Pushcart (Poetry) 2014

Pushcart (Poetry) 2016*

Pushcart (Poetry) 2017*

Best American Poetry 2019

* indicates notable/special mention

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