Wendy Xu - Poet

Wendy Xu is a poet, writer, and assistant professor of writing at The New School in NYC. She is most recently the author of The Past (2021), and Phrasis (2017), named of the 10 Best Poetry Books of 2017 by the New York Times Book Review. The recipient of a Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, and support from the Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, her work has appeared in The Best American Poetry, Granta, Poetry, Tin House, Conjunctions, Ploughshares, The New Republic, New York Review of Books, and widely elsewhere. Born in Shandong, China, in 1987, she currently lives in Brooklyn.

The Poets & Writers Series is sponsored by the Temple University MFA Program in Creative Writing, with the assistance of the Department of English. Each year a number of poets and fiction writers are invited to read from and discuss their work to members of both the Temple community and the local Philadelphia arts scene. All events are free and open to the public.