Steven Duong is a writer from San Diego, California.
He is the author of the debut poetry collection, At the End of the World There Is a Pond (W. W. Norton, 2025).
His writing appears in the American Poetry Review, The Best American Short Stories 2024, The Drift, Guernica, the Yale Review, and elsewhere.
The recipient of an MFA in Fiction from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a 2023-2025 Creative Writing Fellowship in Poetry from Emory University, he is an editor of short fiction at Joyland Magazine.
He lives in New York City.
You can order At the End of the World There is a Pond now from your local independent bookstore. Some good ones include Book Culture in New York City, Open Books in Seattle, Prairie Lights in Iowa City, and A Room of One’s Own in Madison.