XU XI 許素細 is author of  fourteen books, including five novels, one memoir, eight collections of stories and essays.  Her first book was published in 1994 and latest titles include This Fish is Fowl: Essays of Being (Nebraska American Lives Series 2019), Insignificance: Hong Kong Stories (Signal 8 2018), a memoir Dear Hong Kong: An Elegy for a City (Penguin 2017) and the novel That Man in Our Lives (C&R 2016). She is co-founder of Authors at Large and established the Mongrel Writers Residence™  (scheduled to open summer 2021).  An Indonesian-Chinese-American diehard transnational, she splits her life, unevenly, between the state of New York and the rest of the world.  Follow her @xuxiwriter on FB, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn.