Lynn Xu was born in Shanghai. She's the author of two full- length collections Debts & Lessons (Omnidawn, 2013) and And Those Ashen Heaps That Cantilevered Vase of Moonlight (Wave Books, forthcoming), as well as two chapbooks, June (Corollary Press, 2006) and Tournesol (Compline, 2021). She coedits Canarium Books and teaches at Columbia University.