JinJin Xu is a poet and filmmaker. Her debut chapbook, There Is Still Singing in the Afterlife (2020), won the inaugural Own Voices Chapbook Prize. She is also the 2020 winner of the Poetry Society of America’s George Bogin Memorial Award. Her films have been exhibited at the Harun Farocki Institute in Berlin, the Immigrant Artist Biennial in New York, and New York University’s Production Lab. Born and raised in Shanghai, she received her BA from Amherst College and is an MFA candidate at NYU.