Jenny Qi

Jenny Qi is the author of Focal Point, winner of the 2020 Steel Toe Books Poetry Award and a finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize. Her essays and poems are published or forthcoming in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Rumpus. Tin House, High Country News, Open Poems, San Francisco's Asian Art Museum, and elsewhere. She has received fellowships and support from such organizations as Tin House, the San Francisco Foundation / Nomadic Press, the San Francisco Writers Grotto, Friends of the San Francisco Public Library, the California Center for Cultural Innovation, and the Crested Butte Center for the Arts. She is working on a hybrid collection and a memoir in conversation with her late mother’s memoirs of the Cultural Revolution in China and life in Las Vegas, NV. A freelance writer, she holds a Ph.D. in Biomedical Science from UCSF.