Creative Writing Past Faculty

Jenny Xie

Jenny Xie headshot

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About

Jenny Xie is the author of The Rupture Tense (Graywolf Press, 2022), longlisted for the National Book Award in Poetry. Her other collection, Eye Level (Graywolf Press, 2018), was a finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry and the PEN Open Book Award. Xie is recipient of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets and the Holmes National Poetry Prize from Princeton University. Her chapbook, Nowhere to Arrive (Northwestern University Press, 2017), received the Drinking Gourd Prize. Her work has appeared in Poetry​New York Times Magazine, New Republic, and Tin House, among other publications, and she has been supported by fellowships from Kundiman, Civitella Ranieri Foundation, and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference.

ALUMNI POV

Class of '08

Campus Address

Program in Creative Writing
New South Building, Floor 6