Steven Duong is a writer from San Diego, California. His poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Guernica, The New England Review, and other publications. His short story, “Dorchester,” first published in The Drift, was selected by Lauren Groff for inclusion in The Best American Short Stories 2024.

A graduate of Grinnell College and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Steven is currently the Creative Writing Fellow in Poetry at Emory University. His debut poetry collection, At the End of the World There is a Pond, will be published by W. W. Norton on January 14, 2025. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

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