In 2017, his manuscript, We Play a Game, was selected by Carl Phillips for the Yale Younger Poets Prize; the book was subsequently published by Yale University Press in March of 2018.
[1] Doan was born to two Vietnamese parents who had fled from Vietnam in 1975 and resettled in Texas.
[4][5][6][7][8] Doan is a Kundiman fellow and the director of the Favorite Poem Project.
[9][10] His work has been supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the St. Botolph Club Foundation.
[13] Doan's second poetry collection, Zombie Vomit Mad Libs, is scheduled to release in November of 2024, published by Alice James Books.