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Michelle Ming Xu

Michelle Xu is an English major with a creative writing concentration at Barnard College. She is passionate about Asian-American women’s rights and dances bachata on weekends. Currently, she’s reading Naomi Klein’s book No is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need.


Articles by Michelle Ming Xu

Book cover with bold text reading PEN America Best Debut Short Stories 2017. The background is white with geometric teal and orange shapes, and the text is arranged in blocks.
Wednesday September 13

A Slim Anthology that Encompasses Worlds: PEN America Debut Short Stories 2017

Hours later and several stories in, it became a process of cheating myself: “The next story is only six pages.” “It’s only 2am.” “The next one will only take…”