XU XI ¿¿¿, xuxiwriter.com, an Indonesian-Chinese-American from Hong Kong, has published sixteen books-five novels, nine prose collections, one memoir, one coauthored textbook-and edited four anthologies of English Hong Kong literature. Her recent titles include Monkey in Residence and Other Speculations (2022), This Fish is Fowl: Essays of Being (2019), Dear Hong Kong: An Elegy for a City (2017), the novel That Man in Our Lives (2016), and the textbook The Art and Craft of Asian Stories (2021). A writer-in-residence at Arizona State University, City University of Hong Kong, and University of Iowa, Xu has directed two international MFAs. She held the Jenks Chair in Contemporary Letters at the College of the Holy Cross in Massachusetts. In another life, she held management positions at The Asian Wall Street Journal, Federal Express, and Pinkerton's. A diehard transnational, she now lives between New York and the rest of the world. @xuxiwriter FB, Instagram, LinkedIn