Xu Xi (www.xuxiwriter.com) is the author of seven books of fiction and essays.  Recent titles are Evanescent Isles: from my city village (personal essays), Overleaf Hong Kong: Stories & Essays of the Chinese, Overseas, and The Unwalled City (a novel).  Xu is on the prose faculty at the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing program.  A Chinese-Indonesian native of Hong Kong, she now inhabits the flight path connecting New York, Hong Kong, and the South Island of New Zealand.