In 2023, the National Book Foundation honored her as a "5 Under 35" writer.
She graduated from University of California, Berkeley and received a Master of Fine Arts from the Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars.
[3] She has received a Bread Loaf scholarship and MacDowell Fellowship, and completed residencies with Yaddo, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Loghaven.
[3] Xie has contributed writing to multiple publications, including Apartment Therapy, Architectural Digest, The Atlantic.
[4] AGNI, Dwell, Ninth Letter, and Narrative Magazine.