Jenny Xie

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New York University

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| awards = Walt Whitman award (2018), Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Literature (2020)

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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 for the National Book Award in 2018, and of The Rupture Tense, a finalist for the National Book Award in 2022.

Biography

Jenny Xie was born in Anhui, China. She was raised in North Brunswick, New Jersey, and graduated from North Brunswick Township High School.Wuetcher, Sue. [https://www.buffalo.edu/news/releases/2004/04/6664.html "High School Students Recognized in UB Poetry Contest"], University at Buffalo, April 12, 2004. Accessed March 3, 2025. "Fourth place:... Jenny Xie of North Brunswick, N.J., North Brunswick Township High School" She received an undergraduate degree at Princeton University and earned a graduate degree from New York University.{{cite web |title=Jenny Xie |url=https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/jenny-xie-0 |website=Poets.org |accessdate=November 12, 2018}} Xie's chapbook, Nowhere to Arrive, was published by Northwestern University Press in 2017 and won the 2016 Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize.{{cite web |title=Jenny Xie |url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/jenny-xie |publisher=Poetry Foundation |accessdate=November 12, 2018}}

Xie's poetry collection, Eye Level, was published by Graywolf Press in 2018.[https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/eye-level Graywolfpress.org] {{cite web | url=https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/eye-level | title =Eye Level | accessdate=2018-02-28}} 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.

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.{{Cite web|url=https://vilcek.org/prizes/prize-recipients/jenny-xie/|title=Jenny Xie|website=Vilcek Foundation|language=en-US|access-date=2020-02-03}}

Xie's second poetry collection, The Rupture Tense, was published by Graywolf Press in 2022.[https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/rupture-tense Graywolfpress.org] {{cite web | url=https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/rupture-tense | title = The Rupture Tense | accessdate=2023-05-16}} The Rupture Tense was a finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry in 2022.[https://www.nationalbook.org/2022-national-book-award-finalists-announced/ Nationalbook.org] {{cite web | url=https://www.nationalbook.org/2022-national-book-award-finalists-announced/ | title = 2022 National Book Award finalists announced | date = October 3, 2022 | accessdate=2023-05-16}}

Xie lives in New York City. She teaches at Bard College{{cite web|url=https://www.bard.edu/academics/faculty/details/?id=4492|title=Jenny Xie|publisher=Bard College|website=Bard College Directory|access-date=September 2, 2022}}{{cite web|url=http://www.jennymxie.com/about.html|title=About - Jenny Xie|last=Xie|first=Jenny|website=Jenny Xie|access-date=September 2, 2022}} and previously taught at New York University.{{cite magazine |last1=Chiasson |first1=Dan |title=Jenny Xie writes a Sightseer's Guide to the Self |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/05/07/jenny-xie-writes-a-sightseers-guide-to-the-self |magazine=The New Yorker |accessdate=November 12, 2018}}

Awards

Winner of the Walt Whitman award, Eye Level, (2017)
Shortlisted for the 2018 National Book Award for Eye Level
Winner of the 2016 Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize
Winner of the Holmes National Poetry Prize in 2018{{cite web |title=Holmes Poetry Prize goes to Jenny Xie |url=http://www.towntopics.com/wordpress/2018/06/06/holmes-poetry-prize-goes-to-jenny-xie/ |website=Town Topics Princeton Newspaper |accessdate=November 12, 2018}}
Longlisted for the 2019 Dylan Thomas Prize for Eye Level{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jan/31/dylan-thomas-prize-sally-rooney-michael-donkor-nana-kwame-adjei-brenyah-sarah-perry|title=Dylan Thomas prize: teacher and nurse among 'starburst' of young talent|last=Flood|first=Alison|date=January 31, 2019|work=The Guardian|access-date=4 February 2019|issn=0261-3077}}
Shortlisted for the 2019 PEN Open Book Award for Eye Level{{Cite web|url=https://pen.org/2019finalists/|title=Announcing the 2019 PEN America Literary Awards Finalists|date=2019-01-15|website=PEN America|access-date=2019-02-23}}
2020 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Literature
Shortlisted for the 2022 National Book Award for The Rupture Tense
Winner of a 2023 PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award for The Rupture Tense.