Cathy Linh Che is a Vietnamese American writer and multidisciplinary artist. She is the author of two poetry books: Split (Alice James Books), winner of the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America and the Best Poetry Book Award from the Association of Asian American Studies, and Becoming Ghost (Washington Square Press), and 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, and she has received awards from MacDowell, Bread Loaf, Tin House, and Sewanee Writers’ Conference. Her video installation Appocalips is an Open Call commission with The Shed NY. Prior to joining Antioch at Core Faculty in Poetry, Cathy taught creative writing at New York University, Fordham University, the University of Nevada, Reno at Lake Tahoe, and was a Distinguished Visiting Professor and Writer in Residence at Sierra Nevada College.