JinJin Xu, a filmmaker and writer from Shanghai, is the author of There Is Still Singing in the Afterlife (Radix Media, 2020), which won the inaugural Own Voices Chapbook Prize. Her work has appeared in The Common, AGNI, and The Immigrant Artist Biennial, and has been awarded prizes by the Poetry Society of America, Southern Humanities Review, and Tupelo Press. A former Thomas J. Watson Fellow, Xu is now an MFA candidate at NYU, where she teaches hybrid workshops. (updated 4/2021)