Jenny Xie (novelist)

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Jenny Xie is a Chinese-American novelist. In 2023, the National Book Foundation honored her as a "5 Under 35" writer. [1] [2]

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Xie was born in Shanghai. She graduated from University of California, Berkeley and received a Master of Fine Arts from the Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars. [3] She has received a Bread Loaf scholarship and MacDowell Fellowship, and completed residencies with Yaddo, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Loghaven.

She was an executive editor with Dwell. [3]

Xie has contributed writing to multiple publications, including Apartment Therapy , Architectural Digest , The Atlantic . [4] AGNI, Dwell, Ninth Letter, and Narrative Magazine. [3] Her debut novel, Holding Pattern, was published in 2023.

As of 2023, Xie lived in Brooklyn. [5]

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