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 Yale University Press is the university press of Yale University. It was founded in 1908 by George Parmly Day and Clarence Day, grandsons of Benjamin Day, and became a department of Yale University in 1961, but it remains financially and ope ...

in March of 2018.

Early life

Doan was born to two Vietnamese parents who had fled from

Vietnam Vietnam, officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV), is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about and a population of over 100 million, making it the world's List of countries and depende ...

in 1975 and resettled in

Texas Texas ( , ; or ) is the most populous U.S. state, state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States. It borders Louisiana to the east, Arkansas to the northeast, Oklahoma to the north, New Mexico to the we ...

. In his youth, Duy Doan attended Cistercian Preparatory School. He graduated with an English degree from the

University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public university, public research university in Austin, Texas, United States. Founded in 1883, it is the flagship institution of the University of Texas System. With 53,082 stud ...

and later an MFA in poetry from

Boston University Boston University (BU) is a Private university, private research university in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. BU was founded in 1839 by a group of Boston Methodism, Methodists with its original campus in Newbury (town), Vermont, Newbur ...

Career

Doan's poems have appeared in Poets.org, '' Poetry Northwest'', ''The Common'', ''The Margins'', ''Poetry Daily''. Doan is a Kundiman fellow and the director of the Favorite Poem Project. His work has been supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the St. Botolph Club Foundation. He has taught at Lesley University,

, and the Boston Conservatory at Berklee. In 2018, Doan's debut poetry collection, '' We Play a Game'', was released by

; it had been selected by Phillips for the Yale Series of Younger Poets the year before. In 2019, it won the Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Poetry. Doan's second poetry collection, ''Zombie Vomit Mad Libs'', is scheduled to release in November of 2024, published by Alice James Books.

References

{{authority control American poets Yale Younger Poets winners Lambda Literary Award winners American writers of Vietnamese descent Year of birth missing (living people) Living people