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APPEARING AT NYU SHANGHAI WITH JANE WONG, TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 20, 7PM, ROOM 1505, WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVID PERRY

Long-time Hong Kong resident and life-long globetrotter Xu Xi is the author of five volumes short fiction and five novels. Her most recent, the “transnational 21st century novel,” That Man in Our Lives (2015), takes up with fresh energy and insight Xu Xi’s creation of characters unique to our times in their cosmopolitan globe-hopping lives, romances, quests, struggles and conflicts.

Xu Xi, who splits time between Hong Kong, the US, and extensive travel worldwide, writes with keen insight, tough wit and clear-sighted empathy of those who slip between and among cultures, languages, scenes, regimes, worlds, inventing themselves along the way.

Three Xu Xi books are forthcoming in 2016: Interruptions, an ekphrastic essay collection in collaboration with photographer David Clarke; a memoir for Penguin Shorts’ series on Hong Kong, An Elegy for HK; and a short fiction collection, Insignificance.

PRAISE FOR XU XI:

“...That Man in Our Lives, brilliantly explores what is perhaps the most fundamental dynamic of our existence, the profound interaction of two forces, one social and one personal: our connectedness with each other and our yearning to find a self. Beautifully refined in both intelligence and prose, this novel will not let a reader put it down.”                                                                      – Robert Olen Butler

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APPEARING AT NYU SHANGHAI WITH XU XI, TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 20, 7PM, ROOM 1505

Seattle-based poet Jane Wong is the author of Overpour, forthcoming in the fall of 2016 from Action Books.

She is  a former U.S. Fulbright Fellow and Kundiman Fellow and the recipient of The American Poetry Review's 2016 Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize, with poems appearing in Best American Poetry 2015, Best New Poets 2012 and The Arcadia Project: North American Postmodern Pastoral as well as in numerous literary magazines, journals and three chapbooks: Dendrochronology, Kudzu Does Not Stop, and Impossible Map. Currently, she is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Pacific Lutheran University.

PRAISE FOR JANE WONG

“Wong’s poems speak to me with a dark urgency [and] the clarity of truth.….”

                                                                    – Sueyeun Juliette Lee