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Diana Cao

Diana Cao

Diana Cao

Diana Cao's writing has appeared in Ploughshares, Graywolf Labs, The Yale Review, AGNI, and elsewhere. Her debut full-length collection, Slipstream, won the Berkshire Prize at Tupelo Press and is coming August 15, 2026. She is also the author of the chapbook Relational (Sixth Finch, 2024) and the acquisitions editor at Overheard Lit. She was Just Buffalo Literary Center’s 2024 Poetry Fellow, selected by Megan Fernandes, and the winner of the 2025 Kenyon Review Short Fiction Contest. She has received support from MacDowell, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and Willapa Bay AiR. (Source)

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Poems by Diana Cao

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The Trees are Senescing, Not Dying. You're Dying. by Diana Cao

“Thirty-three years, and some days repeat already.” — Diana Cao