The Poetry Project

Lynn Xu

Lynn is centered in the cropped photograph wearing a blue and white horizontal striped shirt with a mock collar. She is smiling and in front of a brightly-painted brick wall.
© Joshua Edwards

Born in Shanghai, China, Lynn Xu is the author of Debts & Lessons and And Those Ashen Heaps That Cantilevered Vase of Moonlight, and the co-translator of Pee Poems by Lao Yang. She has performed multidisciplinary works at 300 South Kelly Street, the Guggenheim Museum, the Renaissance Society, and Rising Tide Projects. She teaches at Columbia University, coedits Canarium Books, and lives with her family in New York City and West Texas.