Cathy Linh Che is a Vietnamese American writer and multidisciplinary artist. She is the author of Split, winner of the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America and the Creative Writing: Poetry Book Award from the Association for Asian American Studies; An Asian American A to Z: A Children’s Guide to Our History; and Becoming Ghost. Her writing has been published in The New Republic, The Nation, and McSweeney’s and she has received awards from the MacDowell Foundation, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Tin House, and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. She currently lives in New York City.

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