Ocean Vuong’s longtime partner is Peter Bienkowski, a former lawyer he met during a brief eight-week stint at business school, as he revealed in a 2017 interview with The Guardian.

Ocean Vuong's novel, The Emperor of Gladness, explores intricate ideas in lyrical prose, but struggles with depth and ...

Thank you for never failing to make me feel that I am the most beautiful girl in the world. Thank you for teaching me to embrace my imperfections, because that’s what makes me special. I am infinitely ...

Ocean Vuong’s magnificent and melancholy second novel, "The Emperor of Gladness," is both ode and reproach. It pays tribute to the human ability to act with kindness toward others even when ...

Author Ocean Vuong talks about his new novel, The Emperor of Gladness. It centers on the unlikely friendship between a 19-year-old college dropout and an 82-year-old with dementia.

Vuong, 36, has received numerous honors, including the T.S. Eliot Prize and Pushcart Prize for his poetry, a MacArthur Fellowship and a Whiting grant awarded to promising writers.

Life’s aftermath ebbs and flows throughout Ocean Vuong’s poetry collection “Time Is a Mother.” An ode to his mother’s passing, Vuong orbits the contours of grief, embedding them into ...

Vuong's new novel, The Emperor of Gladness, is the first he's written, from start to finish, since his mother died in 2019. He says writing it was a way to honor her memory.

Ocean Vuong: If poetry failed me, I wouldn’t stop it, but I would really need to wise up and get a job to support my family. I was not going to be the person who just tinkered with their hobby ...

In addition to being a coming-of-age story, Vuong says the book is also a tribute to the working-class refugees and immigrants like his mother who work in the shadows of American life. Ocean Vuong.