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

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in 2018, and of '' The Rupture Tense'', a finalist for the

in 2022.

Biography

Jenny Xie was born in

Anhui Anhui is an inland Provinces of China, province located in East China. Its provincial capital and largest city is Hefei. The province is located across the basins of the Yangtze and Huai rivers, bordering Jiangsu and Zhejiang to the east, Jiang ...

, China. She was raised in

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, and graduated from

North Brunswick Township High School North Brunswick Township High School (NBTHS) is a four-year comprehensive public high school located in North Brunswick, in Middlesex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, serving students in ninth through twelfth grades as the lone secon ...

. She received an undergraduate degree at

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and earned a graduate degree from

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. Xie's

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, ''Nowhere to Arrive'', was published by

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in 2017 and won the 2016 Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize. Xie's poetry collection, ''Eye Level'', was published by

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in 2018. Xie was named winner of the Walt Whitman award given by the

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in 2018. The book was also named a finalist for the

National Book Award for Poetry The National Book Award for Poetry is one of five annual National Book Awards, which are given by the National Book Foundation to recognize outstanding literary work by US citizens. They are awards "by writers to writers".

in 2018. 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

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for Creative Promise in Literature by the

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in 2020. Xie's second poetry collection, '' The Rupture Tense'', was published by

in 2022. ''The Rupture Tense'' was a finalist for the

in 2022.Nationalbook.org
Xie lives in

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. She teaches at

Bard College Bard College is a private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. The campus overlooks the Hudson River and Catskill Mountains within the Hudson River Historic District ...

and previously taught at

Awards

* Winner of the Walt Whitman award, ''Eye Level'', (2017) * Shortlisted for the 2018

for ''Eye Level'' * Winner of the 2016 Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize * Winner of the Holmes National Poetry Prize in 2018 * Longlisted for the 2019

Dylan Thomas Prize The Dylan Thomas Prize is a leading prize for young writers presented annually. The prize, named in honour of the Welsh writer and poet Dylan Thomas, brings international prestige and a remuneration of £30,000 (~$46,000). It is open to published w ...

for ''Eye Level'' * Shortlisted for the 2019 PEN Open Book Award for ''Eye Level'' *2020

for Creative Promise in Literature *Shortlisted for the 2022

for ''The Rupture Tense'' * Winner of a 2023 PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award for ''The Rupture Tense''.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Xie, Jenny Living people New York University alumni New York University faculty North Brunswick Township High School alumni People from Middlesex County, New Jersey Princeton University alumni 21st-century American poets 21st-century American women writers American women poets People from Hefei Chinese emigrants to the United States Poets from New Jersey Poets from Anhui Writers from Middlesex County, New Jersey Year of birth missing (living people) American women academics American women writers of Chinese descent American poets of Asian descent