Xi Nan
Xi Nan (西楠) is a writer and translator working in English, Spanish and Chinese. Her own work explores memory, time, displacement and the complexities of human relationships, mostly drawing on everyday life and personal experience. Her published works and books can be found through an online search. She now publishes primarily in Whale Review, the independent online literary journal she co-founded with her husband Fish Lu (魯魚). She currently lives in England.
Original Writing
The Last One Who Wasn’t a Rabbit ↗︎
I Don’t Know When to Stop Reading and Start Writing: Jeremy Fernando in Conversation ↗︎
Literary Taste and Its Limits ↗︎
My Mother Was Beautiful When She Was Young ↗︎
In Psychiatric Ward: A Poetry Sequence by Xi Nan ↗︎
Beyond Borders: Xi Nan on Poetry, Translation and Independent Writing ↗︎
The Mainstreamer ↗︎
Selected Translations
Wallace Stevens’s Jar and Redbicycle ↗︎
I Have Neither Killed My Enemies Nor Loved My Love: Four Poems by Wu Chenjun ↗︎
Ordinary Life: Four Poems by He Xiaozhu ↗︎
Just Writing ↗︎
Dreams in Pieces ↗︎
Ten Poems by Fish Lu Nominated for Pushcart Literary Prize ↗︎
Selected Books

My Sin
A Bilingual Anthology of Poetry in Chinese and English
By Xi Nan

Fire Hydrant
An Experiment of Poetry Writing
By Fish Lu · Translated by Xi Nan

I Lived Once Through Your Window
Conversations on Reason, Tenderness, and the Void
By Xi Nan and Fish Lu

The First Time I Ate Saury
By Fish Lu · Translated by Xi Nan
