Xu Xi is the author of seven books of fiction and essays. Recent titles include Evanescent Isles (essays); The Unwalled City (novel); and Overleaf Hong Kong (stories and essays). She is also editor of three anthologies featuring work by Hong Kong authors who write in English. Her awards include an O. Henry story prize, inclusion in the Man Asian Literary Prize shortlist, and a New York Arts Foundation Fiction Fellowship. In 2008, she was named the first English language Writer-in-Residence at Lingnan University, Hong Kong, and she will be the 2009 Bedell Distinguished Visiting Writer at the University of Iowa’s non-fiction Program. She holds a MFA from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and is on the faculty of the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA Writing Program. A Chinese-Indonesian native of Hong Kong, she left an eighteen-year career in international marketing and management in favor of the writing life. She currently inhabits the flight path connecting New York, Hong Kong and the South Island of New Zealand.
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