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PoetryLiterary Fiction
Ocean Vuong
United StatesEnglishOn air since 2022
14,800 followers
Biography
Vietnamese-American poet and novelist, born in Saigon in 1988 and raised in Hartford, Connecticut. He writes about family, memory, language and inheritance.
Won the T. S. Eliot Prize for Night Sky with Exit Wounds and named a MacArthur Fellow in 2019.
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Books
On air
Appearances
Author Readings
Poetry After Dark — readings from Night Sky with Exit Wounds
Poetry After Dark· Ocean Vuong39 minAug 1, 2025Transcript
Literary Conversations
Writing across borders, with Ocean Vuong & Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Literary Conversations· Ocean Vuong66 minJul 29, 2025Transcript
Book Reviews
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous — a letter that cannot be read
The Book Talk· Ocean Vuong67 minJun 11, 2025Transcript