Ocean Vuong: Undergraduate Inside Scoop Lunch is April 27 at 12:00 p.m. in Room 1020, Asian American Studies Building (1208 W Nevada).

Intended for students from across the campus, Inside Scoop conversations invite Illinois undergraduates to engage with the exciting work conducted by scholars whose work helps us understand what it means to be human in a world of rapidly shifting global complexities. These sessions offer an opportunity for all interested undergrads, no matter their majors, to engage with creative minds in the humanities.  This event is free and open to undergraduate students, but registration is required by April 20 at https://forms.illinois.edu/sec/1953344. Lunch will be served.

Ocean Vuong is the author of Night Sky With Exit Wounds (Copper Canyon Press, 2016), winner of the 2016 Whiting Award. Vuong also has two chapbooks: No (YesYes, 2013) and Burnings (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2010). A Ruth Lilly fellow from the Poetry Foundation, Ocean has received honors and awards from Poets House, the Elizabeth George Foundation, the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, the Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, the Academy of American Poets, and a Pushcart Prize.

This event is co-sponsored by Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, Trowbridge Initiative in American Cultures, and Asian American Studies.