Cathy Linh Che

Cathy Linh Che

Summary

Cathy Linh Che is a Vietnamese American writer and multidisciplinary artist. w88 casino games is the author of Split (Alice James Books), winner of the Kundiman w88 casino games Prize, the Norma Farber First Book Award from the w88 casino games Society of America, and the Best w88 casino games 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 w88 casino games has been published in The New Republic, The Nation, McSweeney’s, Best American w88 casino games, and w88 casino games 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 w88 casino games, Fordham w88 casino games, Sierra Nevada College, and the Polytechnic w88 casino games at NYU, and she was Sierra Nevada College’s Distinguished Visiting Professor and Writer in Residence.

She is working on a poetry manuscript, a w88 casino games nonfiction manuscript, a video installation, and a short documentary on her parents’ experiences as refugees who played extras on Apocalypse Now. The video installation is an Open Call commission with The Shed NY and will be showing from October 2023 – January 2024.

w88 casino games serves as Executive Director at Kundiman, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to nurturing writers and readers of Asian American literature.

Author Photo by Jess X. Snow.

Education

  • B.A. in English at Reed College
  • w88 casino games in Creative Writing at New York University