Jenny Xie is the author of Eye Level (Graywolf Press, 2018), winner of the 2017 Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets and a finalist for the National Book Award; and Nowhere to Arrive (Northwestern University Press, 2017), recipient of the 2016 Drinking Gourd Prize. Her poems appear in Poetry magazine, the American Poetry Review, the New Republic, Tin House, and elsewhere. She earned degrees from Princeton University and New York University's Creative Writing Program, and has received fellowships and support from Kundiman, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the Elizabeth George Foundation, and Poets & Writers. She teaches at New York University.