Jenny Xie was born in Hefei, China, and raised in New Jersey. She is the author of "Eye Level" (Graywolf Press, 2018), selected by Juan Felipe Herrera as the winner of the 2017 Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets and a finalist for the 2018 National Book Award. About Xie’s poetry collection, Eye Level, the former U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera
writes: "Jenny Xie’s "Eye Level" is a timely collection of beauty, clarity, and expansive humanity.”