Wendy Xu is the author of You Are Not Dead, selected by Michael Dumanis from the 2012 Cleveland State University Poetry Center first book contest, to be published in 2013. She is also the author of two chapbooks: The Hero Poems (H_NGM_N 2011) and I Was Not Even Born (Coconut Books 2013), a collaboration with Nick Sturm. Recent poems have appeared in Columbia Poetry Review; DIAGRAM; Cutbank; Forklift, Ohio; Third Coast; MAKE; and elsewhere. She lives in Northampton, MA, and is the co-editor/publisher of iO: A Journal of New American Poetry/iO Books, and co-curator of the jubilat/Jones reading series.