Cathy Linh Che is a writer and multidisciplinary artist. She is the author of Becoming Ghost (Washington Square Press, 2025), a Finalist for the National Book Award, Split (Alice James Books), and co-author of the children’s book An Asian American A to Z: a Children’s Guide to Our History (Haymarket Books). Her video installation, Appocalips, is an Open Call commission with The Shed NY, and her film, We Were the Scenery, won the Short Film Jury Award: Nonfiction at the Sundance Film Festival. She teaches as Core Faculty in Poetry at the low-residency MFA program in Creative Writing at Antioch University in Los Angeles and works as Executive Director at Kundiman. She lives in New York City.
- MFA in Creative Writing in Poetry, New York University
- BA in English Literature, Reed College
- Becoming Ghost, poetry collection, Washington Square Press, 2025
- An Asian American A to Z: a Children’s Guide to Our History, picture book, Haymarket Books, 2023
- Split, poetry collection, Alice James Books, 2014
- Winner of the Kundiman Poetry Prize
- Winner of the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America
- Winner of the Best Poetry Book Award from the Association of Asian American Studies
- MacDowell Fellow
- Sewanee Writers’ Conference Fellow
- Bread Loaf Scholarship
- Tin House Scholarship
- Best American Poetry publication
- Best of the Net Anthology
- Asian Cultural Council Grant
- New York Foundations for the Arts Grant
- New York State Council for the Arts Individual Artist Grant
- Loghaven Residency, Knoxville, TN
- UCross Residency, Clearmont, WY
- Storyknife Residency, Homer, AK
- Monson Arts Residency, Monson, ME
- 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
- 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
- Cave Canem Writing Across Cultures Workshop, New York, NY
- Poets House, Emerging Poets Residency, New York, NY
- Asian American Literary Review, a lettre Initiative: Writing Across Cultures & Generations fellow, New York, NY
- 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
- New York University, Starworks Teaching Fellowship Academy of American Poets, Mary Barnard Prize Winner