Jenny Xu

Harper (Ecco)

Jenny Xu edits narrative nonfiction, essays, memoir, and the occasional graphic and illustrated work for Harper, and oversees Ecco’s poetry list. She began her publishing career at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, where she worked with authors including Rebecca Kaufman, Benjamin Percy, and Hala Alyan. Her list has a particular focus on marginalized and underrepresented voices; recent and upcoming books include Anything of Value by Lorelei Lee, Rise by Jeff Yang, Phil Yu, and Philip Wang, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On by Franny Choi, and Monument by Natasha Trethewey. She is on the board of MassLEAP, and mentors through Representation Matters and POC in Publishing.

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