Born in Shanghai, poet Lynn Xu earned a BA from the University of California at Berkeley and an MFA at Brown University.  She received a Catherine and William L. Magistretti Fellowship and a Jacob K. Javits Fellowship for her doctoral studies at the University of California at Berkeley. Xu is the author of the poetry collections And Those Ashen Heaps That Cantilevered Vase of Moonlight (2022) and Debts & Lessons (2013), which was a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize. In 2008 her work was featured in Best American Poetry and, in 2013, she was selected as a New American Poet at the Poetry Society of America. An editor for Canarium Books, Xu lives in Marfa, Texas with her husband, the poet, Joshua Edwards.