Xu Xi is the author of six books of fiction and essays, most recently a collection, Overleaf Hong Kong: Stories and Essays of the Chinese, Overseas, and the novel The Unwalled City. She also co-edited City Stage and City Voices, the first comprehensive anthologies of Hong Kong literature in English.  Her essay collection Evanescent Isles: From My City Village will be published in 2008.

                  Her fiction and essays are published in numerous anthologies, literary journals and magazines worldwide. New work appears or is forthcoming in Silk Road, Manhattan Noir, Muse, N Exposant Nouvelle, Ploughshares, The Writer’s Chronicle, Asian Literary Review, Carve Magazine, Time Asia, Imagining Globalization, Now Write!, Saying the Unsayable. Literary awards and honors include the shortlist of the inaugural Man Asian Literary Award, an O. Henry Prize Story, a South China Morning Post Story Contest winner, a New York Arts Foundation fiction fellowship, among several others, and residencies at the Chateau de Lavigny in Switzerland, the Jack Kerouac Project of Florida, Kulturhuset USF in Bergen. In 2008, she was named the first English language Writer-In-Residence at Lingnan University, and will be the 2009 Bedell Distinguished Visiting Writer at the University of Iowa’s Nonfiction Writing Program.

                  The author is on the faculty at the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing, and holds a MFA in fiction from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.  She teaches writing internationally, as a visiting lecturer at several universities, and also lectures and writes regularly on globalized culture.  A Chinese-Indonesian native of Hong Kong, she left an eighteen-year international marketing and management career in favor of the writing life.  She now splits her time between New York, Hong Kong and the South Island of New Zealand. Visit www.xuxiwriter.com.