Born in Shanghai, China,  LYNN XU is the author of Debts & Lessons and And Those Ashen Heaps That Cantilevered Vase of Moonlight (forthcoming), and the co-translator of Pee Poems by Lao Yang (also forthcoming). She has performed multidisciplinary works at 300 South Kelly Street, the Guggenheim Museum, the Renaissance Society, and Rising Tide Projects. She teaches at Columbia University, coedits Canarium Books, and lives with her family in New York City and West Texas.