Phuong Vuong

Summer Session 1 2025:
LTWR 102C - Poetry Craft

Phuong T. Vuong is a Vietnamese American poet and writer from Oakland. She is a PhD candidate in Literature with a specialization in Critical Gender Studies whose research explores Asian American feminist and queer creative refusal of recognition and legibility as a decolonial tool.

Her research interests include critical race theory, gender studies, queer theory, Asian American studies, decolonial/Indigenous studies, and 20th and 21st century ethnic US literatures.

• M.A. in Literature, University of California, San Diego, 2023
• M.F.A. in Creative Writing, University of Colorado, Boulder, 2020
• B.A. in Black Studies, Amherst College, 2009