Jenny Xie is the author of Holding Pattern, a New York Times Editors’ Choice, and Belletrist Book Club pick. She worked on this debut novel while in residence at MacDowell in 2017. Her short fiction has appeared in AGNI, Ninth Letter, Joyland, Adroit Journal, Narrative, and The Offing, among other publications.
She won the 2014 Driftless Prize in Fiction from Devil's Lake, the 2015 Narrative 30 Below Story Contest, the 2017 Joyland Open Border Fiction Prize, and was included in the 2016 Best of the Net Anthology. A 2023 National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" honoree, Jenny is the recipient of a Bread Loaf scholarship and a MacDowell Fellowship, and holds degrees from UC Berkeley and Johns Hopkins University.
During her 2024 residency, Xie worked on a draft of a second novel, which follows a group of AI-enabled clones cast as a model family in a model home. It explores the nature of love and kinship, and the dystopian frontier of biotechnology, human-computer interfaces, and master-planned cities.
