XU XI 許素細 (b. 1954) is a former Indonesian national of Chinese descent from Hong Kong who became a U.S. national at the age of 33. An author of fifteen books — five novels, nine collections of fiction and essays and one memoir — she is considered one of Hong Kong’s leading writers in English. She also edited five anthologies of Asian and Hong Kong writing. Forthcoming is a new collection, Monkey in Residence & Other Speculations (Signal 8 Press, UK pub date: Nov 1, 2022); recent titles include The Art and Craft of Asian Stories: A Writer’s Guide and Anthology (Bloomsbury, 2021), This Fish is Fowl: Essays of Being (Nebraska 2019), Insignificance: Hong Kong Stories (Signal 8, 2018) Dear Hong Kong: An Elegy for a City (Penguin, 2017) and the novel That Man in Our Lives (C&R, 2016).  She currently holds the William H.P. Jenks Chair in Contemporary Letters at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, and is a founding partner of Authors at Large, Inc..  Previously, she co-directed the International MFA in Creative Writing & Literary Translation in prose at Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, and was Writer-in-Residence at City University of Hong Kong where she established the first low-residency MFA in Creative Writing in Asia. 

A diehard transnational, she long inhabited the flight path connecting New York, Hong Kong and the South Island of New Zealand.  Prior to 1998, she had an 18-year corporate career in marketing & management and held positions at several multinationals in the U.S. and Asia including The Asian Wall Street Journal, Leo Burnett Advertising, Federal Express, Pinkerton’s and Cathay Pacific Airways.  She now splits her life between the state of New York and the rest of the world. 

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