![]() He dropped out of business school at Pace University and earned a degree in 19th-century American Literature from Brooklyn College after which he received an MFA in poetry from NYU and now teaches in the MFA Program for Poets and Writers at UMass-Amherst. Eliot Prize, is consulting on the film adaptation of his novel On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous at A24.īorn in Saigon, Vietnam, he moved to the United States at age 2 and was raised by his mother and grandmother in Hartford, Connecticut. Vuong, whose Night Sky with Exit Wounds won the Whiting Award (he bought a house for his mother with the prize money) and T.S. ![]() After making a name for himself with an acclaimed debut poetry collection, followed by an acclaimed novel, Ocean Vuong returns with his second book of poems, Time is a Mother(Penguin Press), which explores loss, grief, and memory after the death of his mother. ![]()
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