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MONGREL INTERNATIONAL
Imprint for new editions of books by Xu Xi

 

Bidding a wistful farewell to Marshall Moore and Signal 8 Press.  Over two decades earlier, Signal 8 offered to publish my titles in print as E Books.  At the time, all my books were only in paper or hardback, and none of the publishers were interested in E Books.  Signal 8 became my E Book publisher, and over the years, they converted several of my titles to E Books.  Also, they published three new story/essay collections, and they've been a wonderful publisher to work with.  So it's sad to lose them, but their professionalism has made the transition much easier.

 

In 2025, Mongrel International will be the imprint for new editions of some titles by Xu Xi, both as E Books and POD.  Watch this space for the release of each new edition.  

Honorary DFA degree award

In December, Xu Xi will be awarded an honorary doctorate degree (DFA - Doctorate of Fine Arts) from her undergraduate alma mater, the State University of New York at Plattsburgh.

 

 

 

”City Notes with iPhone” just published in Press II Pause, Volume 9: two ”snapshots” in images and prose of a longview take on transnational living  read at this link

Recent New Work
 

The Art and Craft of Asian Stories: A Writer's Guide and Anthology by Robin Hemley & Xu Xi

 

 

 

Fiction Remix” a chapter from her memoir-in-progress The Work Book, appears in the latest issue of New England Review (Vol 43.1). An excerpt was featured at LitHub, click here to read “Xu Xi on Living the Transnational Life”

  

Teaching Creative Writing in Asiaed. Darryl Whetter includes Xu's essay ”Compromised Tongues: That Wrong Language for the Creative Writing We Teach in Asia”

  

A recent issue of West Trestle Review republishes Xu's 2001 story “Democracy” that is surprisingly prescient for the state of democracy in the world today.

 

“2016: The Political Year” new “shaggy fiction”chapter from a novel-in-progress Memories of You named a Glimmer Train finalist, July 8, 2017

 

The Writing Race Asian American Literary Review essay “Speak No Evil” response to MFA vs. POC, Jan 11, 2015

 

 

An essay reflecting on Hong Kong today "永久性香港 Forever This Hong Kong" at First Person with Michael Judge


All About Skin


Edited by Jina Ortiz & Rochelle Spencer, with a foreword by Helena Maria Viramontes, this exciting new anthology is, according to Pulitzer fiction author Junot Diaz, "electrifying and absolutely necessary." Xu’s work is the title story and the volume features twenty-seven stories by women of color. Published in November, 2014 by the University of Wisconsin press.

All About Skin was named a Ms. Magazine 2014 must-read feminist book of the year.