Jenny Xie is the recipient of the 2020 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Literature. Jenny is a poet and professor. Her writing explores perception and the boundaries of selfhood, and how those themes entangle with larger questions about power, language, and the unseen. Her chapbook Nowhere to Arrive won the 2016 Drinking Gourd Poetry Prize, and her debut collection, Eye Level, received the 2017 Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets, and was finalist for the National Book Award. Jenny was born in Anhui, China.
The Vilcek Prizes for Creative Promise are awarded to young immigrant scientists and artists in the United States whose early career work represents a profound advance in their respective fields. Each Creative Promise Prizewinner receives a cash prize of $50,000.
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