Wendy Xu
Wendy Xu is a poet and writer, most recently the author of The Past (Wesleyan University Press, 2021) and Phrasis (Fence Books, 2017), named one of the 10 Best Poetry Books of 2017 by the New York Times Book Review. Her work has appeared in The Best American Poetry, Granta, Poetry, Conjunctions, The New Republic, New York Review of Books, Ploughshares, and widely elsewhere. A new book Your Historical Loveliness Knows No Bounds: Form, Futurity, and Documentary Desire will be published Oct 2025 by the Poets on Poetry series at University of Michigan Press. Xu is assistant professor of writing at The New School in NYC.