Jenny Xie was born in Anhui, China and was raised in New Jersey.

[2] Xie's poetry collection, Eye Level, was published by Graywolf Press in 2018.

[3] Xie was named winner of the Walt Whitman award given by the Academy of American Poets in 2018.

[1] In June 2018, Xie was named winner of the Holmes National Poetry Prize, as a "poet of special merit", selected by the Creative Writing faculty of Princeton University.

[4] Xie's second poetry collection, The Rupture Tense, was published by Graywolf Press in 2022.