Diana Cao

Diana Cao’s poetry and fiction have appeared in Ploughshares, Graywolf Labs, The Yale Review, and elsewhere. Her debut full-length collection, Slipstream, won the Berkshire Prize at Tupelo Press. She is also the author of Relational (2024), winner of Sixth Finch’s annual chapbook contest, 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.