Duy Doan

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Duy Doan is an American poet. In 2017, his manuscript, We Play a Game, was selected by Carl Phillips for the Yale Younger Poets Prize; the book was subsequently published by Yale University Press in March of 2018. [1]

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Early life

Doan was born to two Vietnamese parents who had fled from Vietnam in 1975 and resettled in Texas. [2] He graduated with an English degree from the University of Texas at Austin and later an MFA in poetry from Boston University. [3] [1]

Career

Doan's poems have appeared in Poets.org, Poetry Northwest, The Common, The Margins, Poetry Daily. [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]

Doan is a Kundiman fellow and the director of the Favorite Poem Project. [9] [10] His work has been supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the St. Botolph Club Foundation. [11] [12] He has taught at Lesley University, Boston University, and the Boston Conservatory at Berklee. [1]

In 2018, Doan's debut poetry collection, We Play a Game, was released by Yale University Press; it had been selected by Phillips for the Yale Series of Younger Poets the year before. [1] In 2019, it won the Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Poetry. [13] Doan's second poetry collection, Zombie Vomit Mad Libs, is scheduled to release in November of 2024, published by Alice James Books. [14]

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