Jenny Xie was born in Anhui, China. She was raised in North Brunswick, New Jersey, and graduated from North Brunswick Township High School.[1] She received an undergraduate degree at Princeton University and earned a graduate degree from New York University.[2] Xie's chapbook, Nowhere to Arrive, was published by Northwestern University Press in 2017 and won the 2016 Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize.[3]
Xie's poetry collection, Eye Level, was published by Graywolf Press in 2018.[4] 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.[2]
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.[5]
Xie's second poetry collection, The Rupture Tense, was published by Graywolf Press in 2022.[6] The Rupture Tense was a finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry in 2022.[7]
Xie lives in New York City. She teaches at Bard College[8][9] and previously taught at New York University.[10]
