Duy Doan

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]

Early life

Doan was born to two Vietnamese parents who had fled from Vietnam in 1975 and resettled in Texas.^[2] In his youth, Duy Doan attended Cistercian Preparatory School. 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]