Jenny Xie
Jenny Xie | |
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Born | 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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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 of the National Book Award in 2018.
Biography[]
Jenny Xie was born in Anhui, China and was raised in New Jersey. She graduated from 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 lives in NYC and teaches at New York University.[5]
Awards[]
- Winner of the Walt Whitman award, Eye Level, (2017)[1]
- Nominated for the National Book Award, 2018, for Eye Level[1]
- Winner of the 2016 Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize[2]
- Winner of the Holmes National Poetry Prize in 2018[6]
- Longlisted for the 2019 Dylan Thomas Prize for Eye Level[7]
- Shortlisted for the 2019 PEN Open Book Award for Eye Level[8]
- 2020 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Literature[4]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d "Jennie Xie". Poets.org. Retrieved November 12, 2018.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Jenny Xie". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved November 12, 2018.
- ^ [1] "Eye Level". Retrieved February 28, 2018.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Jenny Xie". Vilcek Foundation. Retrieved February 3, 2020.
- ^ 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.
- Living people
- New York University alumni
- New York University faculty
- 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
- Chinese women poets
- American women academics