kathy wu is an artist, poet, designer, educator, and translator working across language, computation, books, and sometimes textile. Their work pulls at fraught histories of science and technology. They have an MFA in literary arts from Brown University, and they teach art and design. Their work has appeared in Nat Brut, Dialogist, Michigan Quarterly Review, and in anthologies by Nightboat and Fonograf Editions. They are based in Providence, RI, and are learning to move more slowly.

Her debut, She Will Last as Long as Stones, was the 2024 Open Reading Period Book Prize winner, and was selected by guest judge Bhanu Kapil.