Jenny Xie has published work in journals like Front Porch Journal, Cosmonauts Avenue, Ninth Letter Online, PANK Online, Hyphen Magazine, Adroit Journal, and Gulf Coast Online, among others. She has been named the winner of the Devil's Lake Driftless Prize and Narrative Magazine's 30 Below Story Contest, and was included in the 2016 Best of the Net Anthology. She graduated from the MFA program at Johns Hopkins University, where she also taught creative writing, and now lives in Oakland, California, where she is at work on a novel.