Jenny Xie was born in Anhui province, China. She is the author of Eye Level, a finalist for the National Book Award and the recipient of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets and the Holmes National Poetry Prize from Princeton University, and The Rupture Tense, a finalist for the National Book Award. Her work has appeared in Poetry, Yale Review, American Poetry Review, New Republic, Tin House, and elsewhere. She has taught at Princeton and NYU, and is currently on faculty at Bard College. Jenny lives in New York City.