Cathy Linh Che is the author of Becoming Ghost (Washington Square Press, 2025), a Finalist for the National Book Award, a Finalist for the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, an American Library Association Notable Book, an NPR Books We Love Selection, Electric Literature's Best Poetry Collection, a Ms. Magazine Best Poetry selection, and Winner of the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award, and the Asian Pacific American Librarian Association Asian American Poetry Award. Her debut poetry collection Split (Alice James Books), won the Kundiman Poetry Prize, Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America, and the Best Poetry Book Award from the Association of Asian American Studies. She is also the co-author of the children’s book An Asian American A to Z: a Children’s Guide to Our History (Haymarket Books). Her essay "Behind the Scenes" won an Online Journalism Award for its inclusion in a folio in The Verge. Her video installation Appocalips is an Open Call commission with The Shed New York, and her film We Were the Scenery was Shortlisted for the Academy Awards and won the Short Film Jury Award: Nonfiction at the Sundance Film Festival. She teaches as Core Faculty in Poetry at the low residency MFA program in Creative Writing at Antioch University in Los Angeles, where she also serves as Acting Co-Chair, and works as Executive Director at Kundiman. She lives in New York City.
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Cathy Linh Che is a writer and multidisciplinary artist. She is the author of Becoming Ghost (Washington Square Press, 2025), a Finalist for the National Book Award, Split (Alice James Books) and co-author of An Asian American A to Z: a Children’s Guide to Our History (Haymarket Books). Her video installation Appocalips is an Open Call commission with The Shed, and her film We Were the Scenery was shortlisted for an Academy Award and won the Short Film Jury Award: Nonfiction at the Sundance Film Festival. She teaches as Core Faculty in Poetry at the low residency MFA program in Creative Writing at Antioch University in Los Angeles and works as Executive Director at Kundiman. She lives in New York City.
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Cathy Linh Che is a writer and multidisciplinary artist who teaches poetry at Antioch University’s low-residency MFA Program in Creative Writing and works as Executive Director at Kundiman. She lives in New York City.
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Cathy's poetry and prose are represented by Hafizah Geter and PJ Mark at Janklow & Nesbit and her children’s book is represented by Monika Woods at Triangle House Literary.
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