Xu Xi

Xu Xi (born 1954, originally named Xu Su Xi (许素细) also published as Sussy Chakó ) is an English-language author and lecturer from Hong Kong.

She has been the Hong Kong regional editor of Routledge's Encyclopedia of Post-colonial Literature (second edition, 2005) and the editor or co-editor of the following anthologies of Hong Kong writing in English: City Voices: Hong Kong Writing in English 1945 to the Present (2003), City Stage: Hong Kong Playwriting in English (2005), and Fifty-Fifty: New Hong Kong Writing (2008).

Biography Xu Xi is an Indonesian Chinese raised in Hong Kong. She is a graduate of the MFA Program for Poets & Writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Now a U.S. citizen,

Xu Xi is based between Hong Kong, where she works, and New York.

Honours The New York Times named Xu Xi a pioneer English-language writer from Asia, and the Voice of America featured her in their Chinese-language TV series Cultural Odyssey. Her 2010 novel, Habit of a Foreign Sky, was shortlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize. Her short story "Famine", first published in Ploughshares, was selected for the 2006 O. Henry Prize, and she was a South China Morning Post story contest winner. She has received a New York Foundation for the Arts fiction fellowship, and she has held several writer-in-residence positions, including at Lingnan University in Hong Kong; Chateau de Lavigny in Lausanne, Switzerland; Kulturhuset USF in Bergen, Norway; and the Jack Kerouac Writers in Residence Project of Orlando, Inc. In 2009, she was the Bedell Distinguished Visiting Writer at the University of Iowa's nonfiction writing program, and she was the 2010 Distinguished Asian Writer at the Philippines National Writing Workshops at Silliman University, Dumaguete.

Xu Xi's work has received international acclaim: her short story collection Daughters of Hui made it into Asiaweeks 1996 top ten books; her 2000 novel The Unwalled City was a Pushcart editor's choice and was named one of HK Magazines top fifteen best books about Hong Kong; and her essay "The English of My Story" was selected for the Notable Essays & Literary Nonfiction list in The Best American Essays in 2016.