Wendy Xu is a Chinese American poet and writer, most recently the author of The Past (Wesleyan, 2021), and Phrasis, named one of the 10 Best Poetry Books of 2017 by The New York Times Book Review.
The recipient of a Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, her work has appeared in The Best American Poetry, Granta, Poetry, Chicago Review, Conjunctions, The New Republic, Tin House, The New York Review of Books, and widely elsewhere.
Born in Shandong, China, in 1987, she lives in Brooklyn and is currently Assistant Professor of Writing in the Department of Literary Studies at The New School.