Jenny Xie is an American poet and educator. She is the author of Eye Level, winner of the 2018 Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets and a finalist for the National Book Award in 2018, and of The Rupture Tense, a finalist for the National Book Award in 2022.
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 Xie at the 2019 National Book Festival | |
| Born | Hefei, Anhui, China |
| Occupation | Poet, teacher |
| Education | Princeton University New York University |
| Notable works | Eye Level |
| Notable awards | Walt Whitman award (2018), Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Literature (2020) |
| Website | |
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Biography
editJenny Xie was born in Anhui, China and was raised in New Jersey. She graduated from North Brunswick Township High School and Princeton University and earned a graduate degree from New York University.[1] Xie's chapbook, Nowhere to Arrive, was published by Northwestern University Press in 2017 and won the 2016 Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize.[2]
Xie's poetry collection, Eye Level, was published by Graywolf Press in 2018.[3] Xie was named winner of the Walt Whitman award given by the Academy of American Poets in 2018. The book was also named a finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry in 2018.[1] In June 2018, Xie was named winner of the Holmes National Poetry Prize, as a "poet of special merit", selected by the Creative Writing faculty of Princeton University.
Xie was awarded a Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Literature by the Vilcek Foundation in 2020.[4]
Xie's second poetry collection, The Rupture Tense, was published by Graywolf Press in 2022.[5] The Rupture Tense was a finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry in 2022.[6]
Xie lives in New York City. She teaches at Bard College[7][8] and previously taught at New York University.[9]
Awards
edit- Winner of the Walt Whitman award, Eye Level, (2017)[1]
- Shortlisted for the 2018 National Book Award for Eye Level[1]
- Winner of the 2016 Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize[2]
- Winner of the Holmes National Poetry Prize in 2018[10]
- Longlisted for the 2019 Dylan Thomas Prize for Eye Level[11]
- Shortlisted for the 2019 PEN Open Book Award for Eye Level[12]
- 2020 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Literature[4]
- Shortlisted for the 2022 National Book Award for The Rupture Tense[6]
- Winner of a 2023 PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award for The Rupture Tense.
References
edit- ^ a b c d "Jenny Xie". Poets.org. Retrieved November 12, 2018.
- ^ a b "Jenny Xie". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved November 12, 2018.
- ^ Graywolfpress.org "Eye Level". Retrieved February 28, 2018.
- ^ a b "Jenny Xie". Vilcek Foundation. Retrieved February 3, 2020.
- ^ Graywolfpress.org "The Rupture Tense". Retrieved May 16, 2023.
- ^ a b Nationalbook.org "2022 National Book Award finalists announced". October 3, 2022. Retrieved May 16, 2023.
- ^ "Jenny Xie". Bard College Directory. Bard College. Retrieved September 2, 2022.
- ^ Xie, Jenny. "About - Jenny Xie". Jenny Xie. Retrieved September 2, 2022.
- ^ Chiasson, Dan. "Jenny Xie writes a Sightseer's Guide to the Self". The New Yorker. Retrieved November 12, 2018.
- ^ "Holmes Poetry Prize goes to Jenny Xie". Town Topics Princeton Newspaper. Retrieved November 12, 2018.
- ^ Flood, Alison (January 31, 2019). "Dylan Thomas prize: teacher and nurse among 'starburst' of young talent". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved February 4, 2019.
- ^ "Announcing the 2019 PEN America Literary Awards Finalists". PEN America. January 15, 2019. Retrieved February 23, 2019.
