Ocean Vuong emigrated to the U.S. in 1990 from Viet Nam at the age of one. He is currently an undergraduate student at Brooklyn College, CUNY. His poems have been nominated for two Pushcart Prizes and appear in Kartika Review, Asian American Poetry, Word Riot, SOFTBLOW, Barnwood Magazine, and North Central Review among others. He enjoys riding his bicycle around Brooklyn and practicing Zen Meditation. Visit his website for more details. [Read]