Hua Xi is a poet and artist. They have earned fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and Stanford University, as well as the Eavan Boland Emerging Poet Award, and their work has appeared in several publications like The Atlantic and Electric Literature.

Career

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Hua Xi's poems have been featured in The Yale Review, The Atlantic, The New Republic, The Nation, The Adroit Journal, Electric Literature, and more.[1][2][3][4][5][6] Their reviews have been in The Harvard Review and The Observer.[7][8] In 2019, Hua Xi's poems were selected the Boston Review Annual Poetry Contest by poetry judge Ladan Osman, who noted her poems "have a light touch, flexible but precise."[9]

In 2022, Hua Xi was selected for the Gwenn A. Nusbaum/Walt Whitman Birthplace Association "Poets to Come" Scholarship.[10] In 2023, she was chosen for a Creative Writing Fellowship with the National Endowment for the Arts.[11] The same year, they were announced as a Stegner Fellowship in poetry, as well as a winner of the Eavan Boland Emerging Poet Award alongside Otto Goodwin.[12][13]

Hua Xi was an interviews editor for Guernica but resigned in March of 2024, along with several other volunteer staff, after the magazine published an essay that put forth a pro-Israel position with regard to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, which it later retracted.[14]

Hua Xi has also taught poetry workshops for the Spatial Poetry Project and serves as a poetry assistant for The Drift.[15] They have cited Jericho Brown, Bhanu Kapil, and Rick Barot as influences.[16]

References

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  1. ^ Xi, Hua. "Handfuls". The Yale Review. Retrieved 2024-10-31.
  2. ^ Xi, Hua (2022-06-05). "The Past Still Needs Me". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2024-10-31.
  3. ^ Xi, Hua. "Everything Lies in All Directions". The New Republic. ISSN 0028-6583. Retrieved 2024-10-31.
  4. ^ Xi, Hua (2021-05-04). "Heaven". ISSN 0027-8378. Retrieved 2024-10-31.
  5. ^ "Issue Thirty-Three: Hua Xi - The Adroit Journal". 2020-05-16. Retrieved 2024-10-31.
  6. ^ Luce, Kelly (2019-06-03). "The Last Man I Loved Was a Woman". Electric Literature. Retrieved 2024-10-31.
  7. ^ Xi, Hua. "My Heart by Semezdin Mehmedinović, translated by Celia Hawkesworth". Harvard Review. Retrieved 2024-10-31.
  8. ^ Xi, Hua (2022-02-22). "Etel Adnan's Final Lines in "Discovery of Immediacy"". Observer. Retrieved 2024-10-31.
  9. ^ Xi, Hua (April 28, 2021). "Three poems". Boston Review.
  10. ^ "Announcing Hua Xi as "Poets To Come" Scholar - Walt Whitman Birthplace Museum". Retrieved 2024-10-31.
  11. ^ "Meet the Creative Writing Fellows". www.arts.gov. Retrieved 2024-10-30.
  12. ^ "2023-2025 Stegner Fellows | Creative Writing Program". creativewriting.stanford.edu. 2023-08-01. Retrieved 2024-10-30.
  13. ^ "Awardees of the 2023 Eavan Boland Emerging Poet Award are announced | Poetry Ireland". www.poetryireland.ie. Retrieved 2024-10-31.
  14. ^ "Mass resignations at 'Guernica,' which retracts Israeli writer's essay". Jewish News Syndicate. March 10, 2024.
  15. ^ "Spatial Poetry". The Poetry Foundation. 2023-09-14. Retrieved 2024-10-30.
  16. ^ "A Poem and Conversation with Hua Xi". The Hopkins Review. Retrieved 2024-10-31.