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National Book Foundation > Author > Jenny Xie
Jenny Xie was born in Anhui, China, and resides in New York City. She is the author of The Rupture Tense and Eye Level, which was a Finalist for the National Book Award and recipient of the Academy of American Poets’ Walt Whitman Award and the Holmes National Poetry Prize. More about this author >
Shaped around moments of puncture and release, The Rupture Tense registers what leaks across the breached borders between past and future, background and foreground, silence and utterance. More about this book >
Jenny Xie’s award-winning debut, Eye Level, takes us far and near, to Phnom Penh, Corfu, Hanoi, New York, and elsewhere, as we travel closer and closer to the acutely felt solitude that centers this searching, moving collection. More about this book >
Jenny Xie was born in Anhui, China, and resides in New York City. She is the author of The Rupture Tense and Eye Level, which was a Finalist for the National Book Award and recipient of the Academy of American Poets’ Walt Whitman Award and the Holmes National Poetry Prize. Her chapbook, Nowhere to Arrive, received the Drinking Gourd Prize. She has taught at Princeton University and NYU and is currently on faculty at Bard College.
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