events
2021
10/31 SHANGHAI:“宅生记” 瑞华公寓
8/20 - 22 china/italy : "language of the body"
workshop @ Creative Shelter
6/26 7 PM shanghai: Freqs performance, tri
5/20 6 PM EST: Johns hopkins mfa reading
5/3 4:30 PM shanghai: powerlong museum performance
5/2 3 PM shanghai: powerlong museum "Language of the body"
3/27 7pm shanghai: freqs performance, tri
3/18 7 PM EST: NYU EMERGING WRITER'S SERIES
2/18 6 PM EST: Watson on the web: jinjin xu & philip metres
2/10 8:30 PM EST: "Processing the pandemic through poetry"
1/4 2PM: In-person event in Shanghai 馨巢书屋诗友会第四期
1/9 noon est: one minute press launch party
2020
12/4 8PM est: wade into activism, artist talk with Jennifer Chin
11/20 8pm est: Chapbook launch with yanyi, Aria Aber, Anne Carson, Robert Currie (recording)
11/15: The Immigrant Artist Biennial Performance: Mother tongues
11/15: Conversation with Kirun Kapur - Amherst asian alum (recording)
10/19: Chapbook pre-orders live!
10/3: Brooklyn book festival - Annual brooklyn indie party
hosted by greenlight bookstore (recording)
9/29 7PM EST: Black warrior Review reading
9/13 : on writing poetry through exile, asylum, and Diaspora,
A conversation with Abdul samad haidari (recording)
HONORS
BEST OF THE NET NOMINATION, THE FLORIDA REVIEW, 2021
第四届博鳌国际诗歌年度新锐奖，2021
"To Red Dust (II)" BEST NEW POETS ANTHOLOGY, 2021
BEST OF THE NET NOMINATION, THE FLORIDA REVIEW, 2021
92y discovery prize, runner-up, 2021
best new poets Nomination, Florida review, 2021
Pushcart Nomination, Black Warrior Review, 2020
Pushcart Nomination, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, 2020
Finalist, The Cecil Hemley Memorial Prize judged by Sally Wen Mao, Poetry Society of America, 2020
Winner, Own Voices Chapbook Prize, Radix Media 2020, judged by Aria Aber
Honorable Mention, Four Quartets: Poetry in the Pandemic, Tupelo Press, 2020
Honorable Mention, 2020 Auburn Witness Poetry Prize, judged by Paisley Rekdal
Winner, The George Bogin Memorial Prize judged by Carrie Fountain, Poetry Society of America, 2020
Art of Future Imaginations Grant, NYU Tisch, 2020
Fellow, Center for Book Arts, 2020
Fellow, Global Research Institute, Athens, Greece, 2020
Fellow, NYU Screenwriting Production Lab, 2019
Shortlist, Cosmonauts Avenue Nonfiction Prize, 2019
Lillian Vernon Fellowship, NYU Poetry MFA, 2018 - 2021
Fellow, Thomas J. Watson Fellowship, 2017 - 2018
Curatorial Fellow, Flaherty Seminars, 2017
Double short-list, Disquiet International Literary Prize, 2017
Research Fellow, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, 2016
G. Armour Craig Award for Prose Composition, The Corbin Prize, Amherst College, 2016
INTERVIEWS
IN CONVERSATION WITH MELISSA LOZADA-OLIVA
A Conversation with Jihyun yun, washington Square review, 2021
LegeiA Interview with Ashley Wagner , 2021
" Out of body recognition: A conversation with JinJin Xu" with The Rumpus , 2021
Washington Square Review with Amanda Larson, 2020
Zoom Conversation with Kirun Kapur, 2020
Vizards Podcast with Lindy Labriola, 2020
重音社: 重音五问 with Jiaoyang Li, 2020
Singapore Unbound: Art Is + with Janelle Tan, 2020
Artists on Coping: Interview with Silkworm Pupas, Art Spiel, 2020
Interview, Divided Families podcast, 2020
Interview, The Common, 2018
Profile: "Real Lives of Refugees", Amherst Alumni, 2018
Interview, The Amherst Student, 2015
PRESS