JinJin Xu: There is still singing in the afterlife

There Is Still Singing in the Afterlife is one of two winning manuscripts from Radix Media’s Own Voices Chapbook Prize, established in 2020. The prize is dedicated to the discovery of two timely, urgent, and interrogative chapbook-length poetry collections from debut poets of color.  It is the latest title in Radix Media’s publishing program, which we launched in April 2018 with our anthology Aftermath: Explorations of Loss & Grief. For more information on our titles, see our books page.

The Author

JinJin Xu is the 2020 winner of the Poetry Society of America’s George Bogin Memorial Award. She has received honors from Southern Humanities Review, Tupelo Press, and the Thomas J. Watson Foundation. Her films have exhibited at Berlin’s Harun Farocki Institute and NYC’s The Immigrant Artist Biennial. Born and raised in Shanghai, she received her BA from Amherst College and is currently an MFA candidate at New York University, where she received the Lillian Vernon fellowship and teaches hybrid ballet/poetry workshops.