Poetry — Ocean Vuong (Whiting Award 2016)Ocean Vuong

Poetry — Ocean Vuong (Whiting Award 2016)

Whiting Award · 2016 · Winner

Whiting FoundationApril 1, 2016Poetry

Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
Whiting Award	2016	Winner	“Poetry — Ocean Vuong”

About This Book

Ocean Vuong is recognized for his debut poetry collection Night Sky with Exit Wounds, which meditates on Vietnamese-American identity, queerness, war, and family with extraordinary lyric compression. This record is a writer-level placeholder for his Whiting Award.

About the Author

Ocean VuongUS

Ocean Vuong is a Vietnamese-American poet, novelist, and essayist. He won the T.S. Eliot Prize in 2017 for Night Sky with Exit Wounds (Cape Poetry). Read more →