Ocean Vuong is the author of the critically acclaimed poetry collection Night Sky with Exit
Wounds winner of the Whiting Award and the T.S. Eliot Prize. His writings have also been
featured in The Atlantic Harper's The Nation New Republic The New Yorker and The New
York Times . In 2019 he was awarded a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship. Born in Saigon Vietnam
he currently lives in Northampton Massachusetts where he serves as an Assistant Professor of
English at UMass-Amherst. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is his first novel.
