Jenny Xie was born in Anhui province, China. She is the author of EYE LEVEL, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and the recipient of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets, the Larry Levis Prize, and the Holmes National Poetry Prize. Her second collection, THE RUPTURE TENSE, was a finalist for the National Book Award and the CLMP Firecracker Award, and a recipient of the Josephine Miles Award. Her chapbook, NOWHERE TO ARRIVE, received the Drinking Gourd Prize.
She has been supported by fellowships and grants from Civitella Ranieri Foundation, Kundiman, New York Foundation for the Arts, the Vilcek Foundation, the Jerome Foundation, and the Howard Foundation.
She has taught at Princeton and NYU, and is assistant professor of Written Arts at Bard College. She lives in New York City.
Jenny Xie was born in Anhui province, China. She is the author of EYE LEVEL, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and the recipient of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets, the Larry Levis Prize, and the Holmes National Poetry Prize. Her second collection, THE RUPTURE TENSE, was a finalist for the National Book Award and the CLMP Firecracker Award, and a recipient of the Josephine Miles Award. Her chapbook, NOWHERE TO ARRIVE, received the Drinking Gourd Prize.
She has been supported by fellowships and grants from Civitella Ranieri Foundation, Kundiman, New York Foundation for the Arts, the Vilcek Foundation, the Jerome Foundation, and the Howard Foundation.
She has taught at Princeton and NYU, and is assistant professor of Written Arts at Bard College. She lives in New York City.