Wendy Xu
Assistant Professor of Writing; Capstone Coordinator for Writing at Lang
Email
xuw@newschool.edu
Office Location
B - 65 West 11th Street
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Wendy Xu is a poet and educator, most recently the author of The Past (Wesleyan U. Press, 2021), and Phrasis (2017), named one of the 10 Best Poetry Books of 2017 by the New York Times Book Review.
Her debut poetry collection You Are Not Dead (2013), was named by Poets & Writers Magazine as one of the year’s Top 10 debuts. Xu was awarded the Patricia Goedicke Prize in Poetry in 2011, a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation in 2014, and her poetry has appeared in The Best American Poetry, The New Republic, New York Review of Books, Granta, Poetry, Tin House, Ploughshares, Conjunctions, and widely elsewhere. Fiction and essays have appeared in BOMB, BuzzFeed, The Poetry Project Newsletter, and elsewhere.
She holds an MFA from the Program for Poets & Writers at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and has been on creative writing faculty at The Iowa Writers' Workshop, NYU, and the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Columbia University before joining the full-time faculty at The New School.
A critical text on poetics is forthcoming from University of Michigan Press, Poets on Poetry Series, entitled Your Historical Loveliness Knows No Bounds: Form, Futurity, and Documentary Desire.
Degrees Held
B.A., English, University of Iowa
M.F.A., Poetry, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Recent Publications
Your Historical Loveliness Knows No Bounds: Form, Futurity, and Documentary Desire (forthcoming, University of Michigan Press)
The Past (Wesleyan University Press, 2021)
Phrasis (Fence Books, 2017)
You Are Not Dead (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2013)
Research Interests
Poetry writing; poetic forms; contemporary poetry; documentary poetics; Asian-American literature; poetry and literature of war; ekphrastic poetry; creative nonfiction and the lyric essay
Awards And Honors
The Past, Best Books of 2021, The Boston Globe (2021)
Phrasis, 10 Best Poetry Books of 2017, New York Times Book Review (2017)
Phrasis, Fence Books Ottoline Prize (2017)
Harman Writer-in-Residence Workshop Fellow, Baruch College CUNY (2017)
Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship in Poetry (2014)
You Are Not Dead, 10 Best Poetry Debuts, Poets & Writers Magazine (2013)
Patricia Goedicke Prize in Poetry (2011)
Ind. Study Advanced Poetry
LLSW 4021, Fall 2025