Cat Yen

Cat is a writer of memoir. She is interested in unearthing the complexity of gendered and working-class experiences of everyday life, especially those of people of colour. She was the winner of the SBS Emerging Writers’ Competition in 2021, a Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellow in 2024 and an inaugural Abbotsford Convent Writer Resident in 2026. Proudly the daughter of factory and retail workers with no creative credentials, she is a data analyst for her day job.