Ocean Vuong

Ocean Vuong (born , ; born 14 October, 1988) is a Vietnamese American poet, essayist, and novelist. He is the recipient of the 2014 Ruth Lilly/Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, 2016 Whiting Award, and the 2017 T. S. Eliot Prize. His debut novel, ''On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous'', was published in 2019. He received a MacArthur Grant that same year. Provided by Wikipedia