The daughter of Vietnam War refugees, Cathy Linh Che is a writer and multidisciplinary artist. She is the author of Becoming Ghost (Washington Square Press, 2025), Split (Alice James Books), winner of 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, 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, and McSweeney’s. She has received awards from Asian Cultural Council, MacDowell, Bread Loaf, Tin House, and Sewanee Writers’ Conference. She is working on 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 Core Faculty in Poetry at the low residency MFA program in Creative Writing at Antioch University.
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Cathy Linh Che is a writer and multidisciplinary artist. She is the author of Becoming Ghost (Washington Square Press, 2025), 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 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.
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Cathy Linh Che is a writer and multidisciplinary artist from Los Angeles who lives and works in New York City.
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.