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Article Evaluation
I have completed my Wikipedia training and it was easier than anticipated. I didn't realize how much work goes into the articles submitted for Wikipedia. I was always curious of how people were able to edit and write for a Wikipedia page and now I know. I thinks it's great what Wikipedia does for writers of all kinds. For my assigned article I intend on adding informative information regarding the poet that I selected. I will notify the readers of the different aspects of this poets life so they will have knowledge of who this person is as a poet and personally.

Early Life
Cathy Linh Che is a Vietnamese-American poet from Los-Angeles California. Cathy Che was the middle child out of three kids. Che’s father was a Vietnamese soldier in the Vietnam War. While growing up, Che’s mother would comfort and protect her while her father exemplified tough love. Her parents often told her gruesome stories from the war which would later inspire her work as a poet. In an interview done by Emerson College, Cathy Linh Che spoke of the inspiration behind her work, “I would have to say that my parents brought me to poetry. Though neither one is a poet, my upbringing was filled with their stories. While sitting at the dinner table, my parents would tell me about their lives during the Vietnam War, the year in a refugee camp, their first years in the U.S. When I began writing, their voices demanded to be told. I couldn’t help but see their stories as fundamentally part of my own”. Cathy Linh Che attended Reed College and New York University where she received her Bachelor of Arts and Master of Fine Arts degrees.

Awards
Cathy Linh Che’s has several awards pinned to her name; The Kundiman Poetry Prize, The Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America, and The Best Poetry Book Award from the Association of Asian American Studies.