Author

Books by Ocean Vuong

Ocean Vuong is a Vietnamese-American poet and novelist born in Saigon in 1988 and raised in Hartford, Connecticut. His debut poetry collection Night Sky with Exit Wounds won the Whiting Award and the T. S. Eliot Prize among others. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, his debut novel published in 2019, was a New York Times bestseller and won several awards including the New England Book Award for Fiction. He is a professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His second novel, Time Is a Mother, was published in 2022.