xuxiwriter.com is an Indonesian-Chinese writer from Hong Kong.  Her sixteen books include five novels, nine collections of fiction/essays, one memoir, one co-authored textbook, and has also edited four anthologies of English Hong Kong literature.  Recent titles are Monkey in Residence and Other Speculations (Signal 8 UK, 2022), This Fish is Fowl: Essays of Being (Nebraska 2019), Dear Hong Kong: An Elegy for a City (Penguin, 2017), the novel That Man in Our Lives (C&R, 2016), and The Art and Craft of Asian Stories (Bloomsbury, 2021).  Recent critical publications include “The Problem of English in Contemporary Literature,” 2023 Nobel Symposium on Literature papers (Nobel Institute, 2024) and “In Pursuit of the Writer’s Life (despite the Academy)” The Scholarship of Creative Writing Practice: Beyond Craft, Pedagogy and the Academy, ed. Meekings/Moore (Bloomsbury 2024). She was writer-in-residence at Arizona State University, the City University of Hong Kong, and the University of Iowa, and directed two international MFAs in creative writing and literary translation.  Earlier, she held management positions at the Asian Wall Street Journal, Federal Express, Pinkerton’s.  Co-founder of Authors at Large, she is currently the William H.P. Jenks Chair in Contemporary Letters, College of the Holy Cross.  She holds a MFA in fiction from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst  (1985) and was awarded an honorary doctorate (DFA) from the State University of New York in 2024.  A diehard transnational and former Indonesian national, she is now a U.S. citizen.