Xu Xi 許素細 is the author of
ten books, most recently the novels That Man In Our Lives (C&R Press, September 2016)
and Habit of a Foreign Sky (Haven Books, 2010), a finalist for the Man Asian
Literary Prize; the story collection Access Thirteen Tales (Signal 8 Press,
2011).
Forthcoming books include Interruptions (Hong Kong University Museum & Art
Gallery, September, 2016), a collaborative ekphrastic essay collection in
conversation with photography by David Clarke; a memoir Elegy for HK (Penguin
China/Australia, 2017) and Insignificance: Stories of Hong Kong (Signal 8
Press, 2018). She has also edited four
anthologies of Hong Kong writing in English.
Since 2002, she has taught for low-residency MFA programs, including at Vermont
College of Fine Arts MFA in Montpelier where she was elected and served as
faculty chair, and at City University of Hong Kong where she was appointed
Writer-in-Residence and founded and directed Asia’s first low-residency MFA. From January to May, 2016, she was
Distinguished Visiting Writer-in-Residence at Arizona State University’s
Virginia G. Piper Center of Creative Writing.
She is also co-founder, with author Robin Hemley, of Authors At Large, offering international
writing retreats and workshops. A
Chinese-Indonesian Hong Kong permanent resident and U.S. citizen, she currently
lives between New York and Hong Kong.
