Cathy Linh Che is the author of Split (Alice James Books, 2014), which won the Kundiman Poetry Prize, the 2015 Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America, and the 2016 Best Poetry Book Award from the Association of Asian American Studies. She is the coauthor of A Is for Asian American (forthcoming from Haymarket Books, 2023) with Kyle Lucia Wu. Her work has appeared in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, The Nation, The New Republic, and Poetry.  

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