Discipline: Poetry
Based In: Brooklyn, NY
Year at Millay: 2018
Awards/Honors: Artist-in-Residence, Residency Program, CultureHub, New York, NY (2024–2025); Artist-in-Residence, Creative Writing, The Watermill Center, Water Mill, NY (2024); Writer-in-Residence, Franconia Sculpture Park, Franconia, MN (2023); Fellow, Hybrid Arts Lab, Theater Mitu, MITU580, Brooklyn, NY (2022); Artist-in-Residence, Arts Center Residency, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Governors Island, NY (2021); Grant Recipient, City Artists Grant Corps Grant, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY (2021); Grant Recipient, Micro-Grant Program, Ma-Yi Theater Company, New York, NY (2021); Fellow, Emerging Poets Fellowship, Poets House, New York, NY (2019); Fellow, Spring Lambda Literary Fellowship, Sundress Academy for the Arts, Knoxville, TN (2018); Fellow, Poetry, Writer’s Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices, Lambda Literary, New York, NY (2018).
Website: https://www.aluutte.com/
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Catherine Chen is a multidisciplinary poet and performer. Encompassing poetry, video, collaboration, and modes of installation, their work explores the relationship between textuality, mythology, and material histories. Chen is the author of the full-length poetry collection Beautiful Machine Woman Language (Noemi Press, 2023).