Books
An Asian American A to Z: a Children’s Guide to Our History, picture book, Haymarket Books, 2023
Split, poetry, Alice James Books, 2014
Video Installation
Appocalips, video installation, Open Call Commission, The Shed, 2023
Awards
Best American Poetry publication, New York, NY
Loghaven Residency, Knoxville, TN
Pushcart Prize Special Mention
The Shed Open Call commission, New York, NY
Best of the Net Anthology
UCross Residency, Clearmont, WY
Storyknife Residency, Homer, AK
The Film Fund Documentary Winner
Bread Loaf Scholarship for Nonfiction, Ripton, VT
Tin House Scholarship for Nonfiction, Portland, OR
Monson Arts Residency, Monson, ME
Rooftop Filmmakers Fund Scoring Grant
MacDowell Fellow, Peterborough, NH
Sewanee Writers’ Conference Fellow, Sewanee, TN
Granum Foundation Prize Longlist
Saltonstall Residency, Ithaca, NY
Willapa Bay AiR Residency, Oysterville, WA
Djerassi Residency, Woodside, CA
Kimmel Harding Nelson Residency, Nebraska City, NE
Anderson Center Residency, Red Wing, MN
Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, CA
Artist Trust Fellowship, Seattle, WA
Distinguished Visiting Professor and Writer in Residence, Sierra Nevada College, Incline Village, NV
Association of Asian American Studies Best Book Award for Poetry
Norma Farber First Book Award, Poetry Society of America, New York, NY
Writer-in-Residence, Sierra Nevada College Low Residency MFA, Incline Village, NV
Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grant, New York, NY
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace Residency, New York, NY
Kundiman Fellow, New York, NY
Cave Canem Writing Across Cultures Workshop, New York, NY
Kundiman Poetry Prize, Publication with Alice James Books
Poets House, Emerging Poets Residency, New York, NY
Asian American Literary Review, a lettre Initiative: Writing Across Cultures & Generations fellow, New York, NY
Summer Literary Seminars, Contest Finalist
Art Omi Writers House, Residency Finalist
Hedgebrook Residency, Whidbey Island, WA
Poets & Writers, Joseph F. McCrindle Foundation Readings/Workshops Fellowship, Los Angeles, CA
Fine Arts Work Center at Provincetown, Archie D. and Bertha H. Walker Foundation Fellowship, Provincetown, MA
The Center for Book Arts, Letterpress Printing & Fine Press Publishing Seminar for Emerging Writers, New York, NY
Best of the Net Nomination
Pushcart Prize Nomination
New York University, Starworks Teaching Fellowship
Reed College, Commendation for Academic Excellence
Academy of American Poets, Mary Barnard Prize Winner
Select Interviews and Publications
“Marriage,” [poem], Best American Poetry, 2022
“Fade In,” [poem], The Yale Review, 2022
“Zombie Apocalypse Now: Survival” [poem], Best of the Net Anthology, Blackbird, 2022
“Bomb that treeline back…” [poems], nominated for Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize, Guernica, 2022,
“Zombie Apocalypse Now: Pandemic” [poems], Hyphen, 2022
“I love the smell of napalm…” [poems], The New Republic, 2021
“A Sound is Still a Sound,” Waxwing, [essay], 2020
Live at Asian American Literature Festival, VS Podcast, [podcast], 2019
“Becoming Ghost,” [poem], The Offing, 2019
“Becoming Ghost,” [poem], Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day, 2018
“Los Angeles, City of Poets,” [short essay & poem], Los Angeles Review of Books, 2018
“I walked through the trees, mourning” and “Go Forget Your Father” [poems] POETRY, 2017
“Los Angeles, Manila, Đà Nẵng,” Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day, 2016
On Pomegranate, [short essay], In Their Own Words, Poetry Society of America, 2015
Small Press Spotlight, [interview], Critical Mass, National Book Critics Circle Blog, 2014
“APIA Series: Poem and Interview with Cathy Linh Che,” [poem and interview], Best American Poetry Blog, 2014
“Burial,” Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day, 2014
Split, winner of the 2012 Kundiman Poetry Prize, Alice James Books, 2014
Interview with Poet Cathy Linh Che [interview], Ploughshares Blog, 2012
“Fellowship Brings Writer Home” [essay] Poets & Writers Magazine, 2011
“Bloodlines,” nominated for a Pushcart Prize and “Talk,” nominated Best of the Net [poems] Asia Writes, 2010
Teaching
New York University, New York, NY
Creative Writing MFA Program—Creative Writing Workshop: Magpie Poetry; Leonard A. Stern School of Business—Business and Its Publics: Inquiry and Discourse; Iraq War Veterans Writing Program––Creative Writing Workshop; Creative Writing Program—Intermediate Poetry; Introduction to Creative Writing
Chautauqua Institution
5-Week Writing Workshop
Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference
The Transformational Image
Arizona State University at Desert Nights, Rising Stars
The Transformational Image; The Personal & Political in Poetry
92nd Street Y, New York, NY
Advanced Poetry Workshop
Fordham University, Lincoln Center, New York, NY
Poetry Workshop; Oral History and Creative Writing Workshop for Youth: Mother Tongues; Department of Multicultural Affairs—Creative Writing Workshop: Poetry and the Moving Image
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
Rape Culture on College Campuses
University of Arizona Poetry Center, Tucson, AZ
Writing Radical Love: A Self-Care & Community Care Workshop
Sierra Nevada College, Incline Village, NV
Distinguished Visiting Professor / Writer in Residence––Poetry, Creative Nonfiction Workshop, & Composition for Undergraduates; Creative Writing MFA Program––Generative Poetry Workshop: The Transformational Image
Equality Fund, New York, NY
Writing Race & Intimacy Workshop
Poets & Writers, Los Angeles, CA
Radical Self-Care for Writers & Teachers
Red Cloud Indian School, Pine Ridge, SD
Théča Wówapi Kagapi Okholakichiye––Poetry Workshop: Grief and Mythology
YouthSpeaks, Seattle, WA
Teen Program––Poetry Workshop: Writing Our Own Mythologies
Asian American Pacific Islander Literary Arts & Performance Festival, Washington, D.C.
Creative Writing Workshop––Race & Belonging: Intergenerational Trauma in the Diaspora
Polytechnic Institute of New York University, New York, NY
Technology, Culture, and Society—Machines Made of Words I: Poetry as Design
ASA College, New York, NY
Division of Arts and Sciences—Composition 1, ESL Writing Workshop
Asian American Writers’ Workshop, New York, NY
Creative Writing Workshop for Youth—Double Exposures: Documenting War at Home
New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY
Art Therapy—One-on-one Creative Writing Instruction for Children
John Jay College, New York, NY
SEEK (Search for Education, Elevation and Knowledge) Department—English 093
Bell High School, Bell, CA
9th, 10th, 11th, & 12th Grade English; Honors, ELL, Special Education
Panels, Lectures, and Special Projects
Moderator, Asian American Caucus, Association of Writers and Writing Programs
Guest Lecture: Intro Poetry Workshop, University of South Carolina, English Department, Columbia, SC
Reading: “Contemporary Vietnamese American Poetry, 40 Years After the War,” Association of Writers and Writing Programs, Tampa, FL
Panel: “Contemporary Vietnamese American Poetry, 40 Years After the War,” Association of Writers and Writing Programs, Minneapolis, MN
Reading and Lecture, “Code Switching in Split,” University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO
Guest Lecture: Intermediate Poetry Workshop, Fordham University, English Department, New York, NY
Guest Lecture: Asian American Poetics, Hunter College, Asian American Studies Department, New York, NY
CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities, New York, NY, Youth in Action––Creative Writing and Performance Workshop on Protest Poetry
Guest Lecture: Advanced Poetry Workshop, Warren Wilson College, English Department, Asheville, North Carolina
Guest Lecture: “Poetry Now,” Boston University, College of Arts and Sciences, Boston, MA
Guest Lecture: Professional Practices, Sierra Nevada College, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Incline Village, NV
Guest Lecture: “Seeing Rape,” John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Department of Interdisciplinary Studies, New York, NY
Panel: “Race and Belonging: Navigating the MFA as a Writer of Color,” Association of Writers and Writing Programs, with Eduardo C. Corral, Jon Pineda, Tim Seibles, Sejal Shah, and Crystal Williams, Seattle, WA
Panel: “Experiments in Individual Solace and Collective Safety: Five Days of Crafting Poetry at the Kundiman Writers’ Retreat” with Sarah Gambito, Myung Mi Kim, Patrick Rosal, and Prageeta Sharma, The Association of Writers and Writing Programs Annual Conference, Chicago, Illinois
Select Readings
Women Warriors, Asian American Writers Workshop and PEN America, with Maxine Hong Kingston and others, New York, NY.
Soul Sister Revue Reading, Brooklyn College Women’s Center with Cynthia Manick, Lynne Procope, and Peggy Robles Alvarado, Brooklyn, NY
No Desk Poetry Concert: Revolutionary Petunias with Mahogany Browne, Joy Priest, Amanda Torres, Isa Borgeson, Sofia Snow, Jeanann Verlee, Aracelis Girmay, Toi Dericotte, Dawn Lundy Martin, Anastacia Renee, Bowery Poetry, New York NY
Irish Poetry Festival Emerging Writers Reading with Julie Morrissy, Irish Arts Center, New York, NY
KGB Monday Night Reading with Ryan Black, KGB Bar, New York, NY
Third Thursdays, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center, Nebraska City, NE
Poetry Reading and Conversation with Jenny Xie, Elliot Bay Books, Seattle, WA
Smithsonian Portrait Gallery, Asian American Literature Festival, POETRY Magazine Launch with Li-Young Lee, Garrett Hongo, and Sueyeun Juliette Lee, Washington, D.C.
Library of Congress, Asian American Literary Review presents A Lettre Initiative Fellows with Eugenia Leigh, R.A. Villanueva, and Ocean Vuong, Washington, D.C.
Massachusetts Poetry Festival, Poems of Love and War with Laren McClung and Bruce Weigl, Salem, MA
Columbia University, FOLKSLAM with Jess X. Chen and Paul Tran, New York, NY
Poetry Society of America Readings at McNally Jackson with James Allen Hall, McNally Jackson Books, New York, NY
Poets for Ferguson, Fowler Arts, Brooklyn, NY
New Works Reading with Lucie Brock-Broido, Mark Bibbins, and Tomasz Rozyck, Brooklyn Book Festival, Brooklyn, NY
VIDA Reading with Idra Novey, Camille Rankine, and Morgan Parker, New York Poetry Festival, Governor’s Island, New York, NY
New York University, Writers in New York with Major Jackson and Patrick Rosal, New York, NY
Open Texts, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace Reading, New York, NY
Four Way Books & Friends with Brett Fletcher Lauer, Benjamin Miller, & Maudelle Driskell, NYU Bookstore, New York, NY
“Alice James Presents” with Sally Wen Mao & Jamaal May, New York University's Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House, New York, NY
Academy of American Poets American Poets Spring Launch Party with Dan Chiasson & Saskia Hamilton, Berl's Poetry Shop, Brooklyn, NY (04/2014)
Work Experience
Faculty, Low-residency MFA Program in Creative Writing, University of Nevada, Reno
Executive Director, Managing Director, Programs & Communications Manager, Kundiman, New York, NY
Visiting Professor, Sierra Nevada College, Incline Village, NY
Media Director, Kaya Press, Los Angeles, CA
Program Associate, Program Assistant for Readings & Workshops (East), Poets & Writers, Inc., New York, NY
Founding Editor, Paperbag: a journal of the arts, New York, NY
Editorial Assistant, New Directions Publishing, New York, NY
Reading Series Coordinator, Emerging Writers Reading Series, KGB Bar, New York, NY
Assistant International Editor & Layout Editor, Washington Square Review, New York, NY