Quote by Ocean Vuong: “Let me begin again. Let me revise.”

Every piece of writing, every relationship, every choice can be revised. Starting over isn't failure — it's how precision and honesty are achieved. This phrase carries a deeper truth: life, like writing, is not something you get right once. You are always allowed to revise who you are becoming.

Vuong published his debut poetry collection Night Sky with Exit Wounds in 2016, which won the T.S. Eliot Prize. The poems navigated the violent history of the Vietnam War, queer desire, and immigrant experience — each one a revision of the silences he had inherited.

Vietnamese-American poet and novelist whose debut poetry collection Night Sky with Exit Wounds won the T.S. Eliot Prize in 2017. His debut novel On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous explores immigrant identity, queerness, and intergenerational trauma through a letter from a son to his illiterate mother. He teaches at New York University.