Cathy Linh Che is a Vietnamese American writer and multidisciplinary artist. She is the author of Split (Alice James Books), winner of the Kundiman Poetry Prize, the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America, and the Best Poetry Book Award from the Association of Asian American Studies, the co-author, with Kyle Lucia Wu, of the children’s book An Asian American A to Z: a Children’s Guide to Our History (Haymarket Books).
Her writing has been published in The New Republic, The Nation, McSweeney’s, Best American Poetry, and Poetry magazine. She has received awards from MacDowell, Bread Loaf, Tin House, and Sewanee Writers’ Conference. She has taught at the 92nd Street Y, New York University, Fordham University, Sierra Nevada College, and the Polytechnic University at NYU, and she was Sierra Nevada College’s Distinguished Visiting Professor and Writer in Residence.
She is working on a poetry manuscript, a creative nonfiction manuscript, and a short documentary on her parents’ experiences as refugees who played extras on Apocalypse Now. Her video installation Appocalips is an Open Call commission with The Shed NY.
She serves as Executive Director at Kundiman, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to nurturing writers and readers of Asian American literature and is on the low residency MFA program faculty in Creative Writing at the University of Nevada, Reno.
Author Photo by Jess X. Snow.
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.
Shorter bio:
Cathy Linh Che is a Vietnamese American writer and multidisciplinary artist. She is the author of Split (Alice James Books) and co-author, with Kyle Lucia Wu, of the children’s book An Asian American A to Z: a Children’s Guide to Our History (Haymarket Books). She is working on a poetry manuscript, a creative nonfiction manuscript, and a short documentary on her parents’ experiences as refugees who played extras on Apocalypse Now. Her video installation Appocalips is an Open Call commission with The Shed NY. She works as Executive Director at Kundiman, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to nurturing writers and readers of Asian American literature.
Shortest bio:
Cathy Linh Che is a Vietnamese American writer and multidisciplinary artist from Los Angeles who lives and works in New York City.