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Ocean Vuong (born Vương Quốc Vinh, Vietnamese: [vɨəŋ˧ kuək˧˥ viɲ˧]; born 1988) is a Vietnamese American poet, essayist, and novelist. His debut novel, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, was published in 2019. He received a MacArthur Grant that same year. He is the recipient of the 2014 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, 2016 Whiting Award, and the 2017 T. S. Eliot Prize.
| Type | Title | Year | Publisher | Identifier | Ref. |
| Novels | On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous | 2019 | Penguin Press | mw- body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw- .mw- .mw- .mw- } }ISBN 978-0-525-56204-7Hardcover: ISBN 978-0-525-56202-3 | |
| The Emperor of Gladness | 2025 | Hardcover: ISBN 978-0-593-83187-8 | |||
| Poetry | Night Sky with Exit Wounds | 2016 | Copper Canyon Press | Paperback: ISBN 978-1-55659-495-3Hardcover: ISBN 978-1-55659-585-1 | |
| Time Is a Mother | 2022 | Penguin Press | Paperback: ISBN 978-0-593-30025-1Hardcover: ISBN 978-0-593-30023-7 | ||
| Chapbooks | Burnings | 2010 | Sibling Rivalry Press | Paperback: ISBN 978-0-578-07059-9 | |
| No | 2013 | YesYes Books | Paperback: ISBN 978-1-936919-22-2 |
| Title | Year | Publisher | Ref. |
| 12 Gauge | 2013 | The Paris-American | |
| DetoNation | 2014 | Poetry | |
| Aubade with Burning City | |||
| Kissing in Vietnamese | 2014 | Split This Rock | |
| On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous | 2014 | Poetry | |
| Trojan | 2015 | Narrative Magazine | |
| Waterline | |||
| No One Knows the Way to Heaven | |||
| Someday I'll love Ocean Vuong | 2015 | The New Yorker | |
| Two Boys Bathing During a Ceasefire | 2015 | The New Republic | |
| Tell Me Something Good | 2015 | Academy of American Poets | |
| Trevor | 2016 | BuzzFeed News | |
| Toy Boat | 2016 | Poetry | |
| A Little Closer to the Edge | |||
| Scavengers | 2016 | The New Yorker | |
| Ode to Masturbation | 2016 | Split This Rock | |
| Essay on Craft | 2017 | Poetry | |
| You Guys | 2017 | Granta | |
| Dear Rose | 2017 | Harper's Magazine | |
| Almost Human | 2019 | The New Yorker | |
| Not Even This | 2020 | Poetry | |
| Reasons for Staying | 2021 | Harper's Magazine | |
| Beautiful Short Loser | 2022 | Granta |
| Title | Year | Publisher | Ref. |
| The Weight of Our Living: On Hope, Fire Escapes, and Visible Desperation | 2014 | The Rumpus | |
| Beginnings: New York | 2015 | The Adroit Journal | |
| Surrendering | 2016 | The New Yorker | |
| A Letter to My Mother That She Will Never Read | 2017 | ||
| How I Did It: The Seventh Circle of Earth | 2017 | Poetry School | |
| How Can We Make the MFA Workshop More Hospitable to Writers of Color? | 2018 | Literary Hub | |
| Reimagining Masculinity | 2019 | The Paris Review | |
| The 10 Books I Needed to Write My Novel | 2019 | Literary Hub |
| Year | Programme | Channel | Role | Notes | Ref. |
| 2016 | PBS NewsHour | PBS | Himself | Vietnamese American Poet Contemplates His Personal Ties to the War | |
| 2019 | Late Night with Seth Meyers | NBC | Season 6, Episode 111 | ||
| Vice News Tonight | HBO | Ocean Vuong 'Breaks Apart' The Immigrant Experience in His Debut Novel | |||
| Amanpour & Company | PBS | Ocean Vuong on Race, Sexuality and His New Novel |