Wendy Xu is the author of the chapbook The Hero Poems, published by H_NGM_N BKS. Selected by D.A. Powell as the winner of the 2011 Patricia Goedicke Prize in Poetry, her poems have appeared, or are forthcoming in The American Poetry Journal, CutBank, Diagram, Jellyfish, NOO Journal, Columbia Poetry Review, Third Coast, MAKE, InDigest, and elsewhere. She co-edits iO: A Journal of New American Poetry / iO Books, and lives in Northampton, Massachusetts. Visit her website for more information. [Read]