Xu Xi
XU XI (www.xuxiwriter.com) is author of nine books of fiction and essays, most recently the novel Habit of a Foreign Sky (2010), a finalist for the inaugural Man Asian Literary Prize. Her story collection Access will be published in 2011-12. Other titles include Evanescent Isles (essays), Overleaf Hong Kong (stories and essays), The Unwalled City (novel), and History’s Fiction (stories). She is also editor of three anthologies of Hong Kong writing in English, including Fifty-Fifty and City Voices. Her work is anthologized and taught internationally. New essays and stories appear or will appear in Fourth Genre, Hotel Amerika, Cutthroat, Memorius, Upstreet, Muse (Hong Kong), Wasafiri (London). Awards include an O. Henry Prize Story, the Ploughshares Cohen Award for best story and a New York State fiction fellowship, among others; she has also been visiting or resident writer at several colonies and universities, most recently the Distinguished Asian Writer at the Philippines National Writers Workshop, Silliman University, Dumaguete; the Bedell Distinguished Visiting Writer, Univ. of Iowa; writer-in-residence, Lingnan Univ., Hong Kong; Chateau de Lavigny, Switzerland; the Jack Kerouac Project, Florida. She has taught creative writing workshops at universities and other forums in Asia, Europe, and North America, as well as online for UCLA, and she also lectures and writes on globalized culture. A Chinese-Indonesian native of Hong Kong, she abandoned an 18-year international marketing and management career in favor of the writing life. She is currently writer-in-residence at the City University of Hong Kong, where she directs an international MFA in writing of Asia in English.
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