Cathy linh che biography

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 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, and her documentary short We Were the Scenery ha