Jenny Xie is a writer based in Brooklyn, NY. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in journals like Ninth Letter Online, PANK Online, Necessary Fiction, Adroit Journal, Phoebe, Hyphen Magazine, Gulf Coast Online, and The Offing, among others. 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. Her MacDowell-supported debut novel, Holding Pattern, came out in June 2023 with Riverhead Books.
Jenny Xie
Fellow Works Supported by MacDowell
Holding Pattern (Novel)
Studios
Van Zorn (formerly Kirby)
Jenny Xie worked in the Van Zorn (formerly Kirby) studio.
Constructed thanks to a bequest from Sarah L. Kirby, Kirby Studio was the last new building to be erected during Mrs. MacDowell’s leadership (1907-1951). The load-bearing masonry walls were laid by local mason Augustus Beaulieu atop a fieldstone foundation. A 1995 renovation preserved the brick fireplace with wooden mantel and…