Xu Xi is the author of seven books of fiction and essays. Recent titles include Evanescent Isles and The Unwalled City. Her new novel Habit of a Foreign Sky was shortlisted for the inaugural Man Asian Literary Prize and will be released in October, 2010. She is also editor of three anthologies featuring work by Hong Kong authors who write in English. Other awards include an O. Henry story prize, a New York Arts Foundation Fiction Fellowship and the Bedell Distinguished Visiting Writer position at the University of Iowa’s Nonfiction Program. A Chinese-Indonesian native of Hong Kong, she left an eighteen-year career in international marketing and management in favor of the writing life. She is currently faculty chair at Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing. In March 2010, she was named the first full-time Writer-in-Residence at City University of Hong Kong, where she oversees a new, low-residency MFA program that specializes in Asian writing in English.
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