Xu Xi

Fiction Writer, Creative Nonfiction Writer

Morrisonville, NY
New York US
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Author's Bio

XU XI 許素細 is author of  fourteen books, including five novels, one memoir, eight collections of stories and essays.  Her first book was published in 1994 and latest titles include This Fish is Fowl: Essays of Being (Nebraska American Lives Series 2019), Insignificance: Hong Kong Stories (Signal 8 2018), a memoir Dear Hong Kong: An Elegy for a City (Penguin 2017) and the novel That Man in Our Lives (C&R 2016). She is co-founder of Authors at Large and established the Mongrel Writers Residence™  (scheduled to open summer 2021).  An Indonesian-Chinese-American diehard transnational, she splits her life, unevenly, between the state of New York and the rest of the world.  Follow her @xuxiwriter on FB, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn.

Literary agent: 
Harold Matson Company

Publications & Prizes

Creative Nonfiction

Books:
This Fish Is Fowl (University of Nebraska Press, American Lives Series, 2019)
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Dear Hong Kong: An Elegy for a City (Penguin, 2017)
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Interruptions (ekphrastic essays w/photographer David Clarke) (Hong Kong University Press, 2017)
,
Evanescent Isles: from my city-village (Hong Kong University Press, 2008)

Fiction

Books:
Insignificance: Hong Kong Stories (Signal 8, 2018)
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History's Fiction (E Book edition) (Signal 8, 2017)
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Overleaf Hong Kong (E Book edition) (Signal 8, 2017)
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That Man in Our Lives (C & R Press, 2016)
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Access: Thirteen Tales (Signal 8, 2011)
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Habit of a Foreign Sky (E Book edition) (Signal 8, 2011)
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Hong Kong Rose (E Book edition) (Signal 8, 2011)
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Chinese Walls (E Book edition) (Signal 8, 2010)
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Daughters of Hui (E Book edition) (Signal 8, 2010)
,
The Unwalled City (E Book edition) (Signal 8, 2010)
Prizes won: 

Shortlisted Man Asian Literary Award 2007 for novel Habit of a Foreign Sky

O. Henry Prize Story 2006 for “Famine”

South China Morning Post  1992 Story Contest winner for “Blackjack”

New York Foundation for the Arts 1991 Fiction Fellow

 

 

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
Asian American
Prefers to work with: 
Adults, Immigration, LGBTQ, Seniors, Women
Fluent in: 
Chinese, English, French
Born in: 
Kowloon
Hong Kong S.A.R., China
Raised in: 
Kowloon
Hong Kong S.A.R., China
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Last update: Aug 20, 2020