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Ocean Vuong's debut vovel, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, has been selected as top book in 2019 by The Washington Post, Variety, GQ, Time, The Guardian, CNN, The Times, The Register Guard, Lit Hub, NPR, boston.com, and more. The book was also long-listed for the 2019 2019 National Book Award for Fiction.

Earlier this year, Vuong was honored as 2019 MacArthur Fellow in Fiction and Non-Fiction writing category. 

Vuong is an assistant professor in English and in the Masters of Fine Arts Program for Poets and Writers. For more information, please see his faculty page.