Jenny Xie

Jenny 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]

• 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.