Xujun Eberlein
Instructor
About Xujun
Xujun Eberlein is an award-winning fiction and nonfiction writer, as well as a literary translator. Her essay "Ms. Daylily" won the 2021 Iowa Review Award in nonfiction judged by Melissa Febos. She is the author of APOLOGIES FORTHCOMING, a short story collection that won the Tartt First Fiction Award and also a runner-up for the Drake Emerging Writer's Award. Her work has appeared in Agni, American Literary Review, Asia Literary Review, Brevity, Iron Horse, Meridian, Michigan Quarterly Review, New England Review, Night Train, Post Road, Prism International, Stand, StoryQuarterly, Walrus, and elsewhere. In addition to literary magazines, she also wrote for Foreign Policy, LA Review of Books, theAtlantic.com, and the New America Media. Prizes and honors she received for her writing include: winner of the American Literary Review's Creative Nonfiction Contest, notable mention in BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS, Artist’s Grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, fiction scholarship to the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, first prize winner of the Ledge Fiction Award, second prize in Literal Latte's Essay Awards, finalist in Narrative Magazine's story contest, special mention in The Pushcart Prize. She holds a Ph.D. in Transportation Science from MIT and an MFA in Creative Nonfiction Writing from Emerson College. Excerpts from the memoir she's currently working on recently appeared in AGNI. Visit < https://agnionline.bu.edu/abou... > to read "The Summer before Thirteen" and "In Which No Sex Takes Place."