Jenny Xie
Jenny Xie is an American poet and educator. She is the author of "Eye Level", winner of the 2018 Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets and a finalist of the National Book Award in 2018. Biography. Jenny Xie was born in Anhui, China and was raised in New Jersey. She graduated from North Brunswick Township High School and Princeton University and earned a graduate degree from New York University. Xie's chapbook, "Nowhere to Arrive" was published by Northwestern University Press in 2017 and won the 2016 Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize. Xie's poetry  collection, "Eye Level", was published by Graywolf Press in 2018. Xie was named winner of the Walt Whitman award given by the Academy of American Poets in 2018. The book was also named a finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry in 2018. In June 2018, Xie was named winner of the Holmes National Poetry Prize, as a "poet of special merit", selected by the Creative Writing faculty of Princeton University. Xie was awarded a Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Literature by the Vilcek Foundation in 2020. Xie lives in NYC and teaches at New York University. Jenny