Duy Đoàn (pronounced zwē dwän / zwee dwahn) is the author of We Play a Game (Yale University Press), winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize and a Lambda Literary Award. Duy’s work has appeared in the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day, The Margins, Kenyon Review and Poetry. A Kundiman fellow, he received an MFA in poetry from Boston University. He lives in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

"From its very first electric moment, Duy Doan fills these pages with lines that are virtuosic in their intensity, conjured from brain chemicals, earworms, and ghosts. From Wong Kar-wai to Sonic the Hedgehog, this collection pushes at the edges where the forms of the dead meet the language of the living. By turns haunted, conversational, probing, sharp, these poems seek to remix the blank, to complicate the white space of memory with the traces of possible futures. The zombie poems moving through this collection place it in a kind of aftermath, where the life that came before balances on the edge of what comes next. To commune with the dead, to re-enact their music, to listen to that music and take from it new life—this is Duy Doan's magic, and his particular form of punk-rock hope."
—Laura Marris, translator of The Plague