Wendy Xu is the author of the full-length poetry collection You Are Not Dead (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2013) and two chapbooks: The Hero Poems (H_NGM_N, 2011), and I Was Not Even Born (Coconut Books, 2013). Her poems have appeared in The Best American Poetry, Gulf Coast, Black Warrior Review, Columbia Poetry Review, The Volta, and widely elsewhere. She lives in Western Massachusetts where she is the co-editor and publisher of iO: A Journal of New American Poetry / iO Books.