Steven Duong is a writer from San Diego. He is the author of the debut poetry collection At the End of the World There Is a Pond (W. W. Norton, 2025). His poems have appeared in the American Poetry Review, Guernica, and the Yale Review, among other publications, and his short fiction is featured in Catapult, The Drift, and The Best American Short Stories 2024.

The recipient of fellowships and awards from Kundiman, the Academy of American Poets, and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he is currently a creative writing fellow in poetry at Emory University. He lives in Atlanta.

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Poetry

“Companion” - The Yale Review
“Novel” - The Atlantic
“Ordnance” - Guernica
“Curfew” - Protean Magazine
“Origin Story” - Catapult

Prose

“Dorchester” - The Drift
“My Best Friend is a Fish!” - Astra Magazine