Diana Cao

Diana Cao’s debut poetry collection, Slipstream, won the 2024 Berkshire Prize at Tupelo Press, selected by Matthew Rohrer, and is forthcoming in 2026. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in Ploughshares, The Threepenny Review, and The Yale Review, and she won Kenyon Review‘s 2025 Short Fiction Contest. Her work has received support from MacDowell, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and Just Buffalo Literary Center. (updated 11/2025)

Read Cao’s essay “Now That We See” in AGNI Online’s The X-Ray at 130.