Cathy Linh Che (acting co-chair / core poetry faculty) is the author of
Becoming Ghost (Washington Square Press, 2025), a Finalist for the National
Book Award, a Finalist for the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, an American Library
Association Notable Book, an NPR Books We Love Selection, Electric
Literature's Best Poetry Collection, a Ms. Magazine Best Poetry selection, and
Winner of the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award, and the Asian Pacific
American Librarian Association Asian American Poetry Award. Her debut
poetry collection Split (Alice James Books), won 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. She
is also the co-author of the children’s book An Asian American A to Z: a
Children’s Guide to Our History (Haymarket Books). Her essay "Behind the
Scenes" won an Online Journalism Award for its inclusion in a folio in The
Verge. Her video installation Appocalips is an Open Call commission with The
Shed New York, and her film We Were the Scenery was Shortlisted for the
Academy Awards and 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, where she also serves as Acting Co-Chair, and works as Executive
Director at Kundiman. She lives in New York City.