Kundiman and CityLit Project are hosting "Writing Our Ghosts," a reading and discussion featuring Cathy Linh Che and Kat Chow at the Baltimore Book Festival.

What does it mean to write to, or in remembrance of, our family’s ghosts? In this reading and conversation, Cathy Linh Che (executive director of Kundiman and author of Becoming Ghost, Split, and An Asian American A to Z: A Children's Guide to Our History) and Kat Chow (author of Seeing Ghosts: A Memoir) will read from their works, discuss how they have contended with their familial histories via their creative practices, and address how writing out these ghosts can provide us with a more whole understanding of our collective past, present, and future.

This event will take place on Saturday, September 13th from 1:45 PM–2:45 PM ET on the CityLit 31st Street Stage at the Baltimore Book Festival (31st Street & Barclay Street, Baltimore, MD).

Cathy Linh Che is a writer and multidisciplinary artist. She is the author of Becoming Ghost (Washington Square Press, 2025), Split (Alice James Books) and 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 video installation Appocalips is an Open Call commission with The Shed NY, and her film We Were the Scenery 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 and works as Executive Director at Kundiman. She lives in New York City.

Kat Chow is a journalist, writer and the author of Seeing Ghosts: A Memoir (Grand Central Publishing), named a Notable Book by The New York Times and a finalist for the Connecticut Book Award. She is currently the Newsday/Laventhol Visiting Assistant Professor at the Columbia Journalism School. She was a reporter at NPR, where she was a founding member of the Code Switch team and podcast. Her work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, The Paris Review, New York Magazine’s The Cut and on Radiolab, and she's a contributor to Pop Culture Happy Hour. She’s received residency fellowships from Storyknife, Millay Arts and the Jack Jones Literary Arts Retreat.