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Jenny Xie
American poet

Jenny Xie

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American poet
A.K.A.
Jenny M. Xie
Gender
Female
Place of birth
Hefei, People's Republic of China
Residence
Brooklyn, United States of America
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Biography

Jenny Xieis an American poet and teacher. She is the author of Eye Level, winner of the 2017 Walt Whitman award of the Academy of American Poets and a finalist of the National Book Award in 2017.

Biography

Jenny Xie was born in Hefei, China and was raised in New Jersey. She graduated from Princeton University and earned a creative writing degree from New York University. Xie's chapbook, Nowhere to Arrive was published by Northwestern University Press in 2017 and won the 2016 Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize.

Xie's poetry collection, Eye Level, was published by Graywolf Press in 2018.Xie was named winner of the Walt Whitman award given by the Academy of American Poets in 2017. The book was also named a finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry 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 lives in Brooklyn and teaches at New York University.

Awards

  • Winner of the Walt Whitman award, Eye Level, (2017)
  • Nominated for the National Book Award, 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 for Eye Level
  • Shortlisted for the 2019 PEN Open Book Award for Eye Level
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