J Xiang1 is a writer, failed mathematician, and transsexual.2 J used to only write about the desert, but now lives in Brooklyn.
In another life, J is a blissful algebraic number theorist; in this one, J will be be the first playwright under the letter “X” at the Drama Book Shop.3
Saints: Reza Abdoh, Sarah Kane, Jean Genet, David Wojnarowicz, Robert Gluck.
MFA: Hunter College, playwriting, ’26, hopefully.4 BA: Columbia, ’24.5
recent obsessions
- drywall
- saints
- high fashion gender
- the american southwest
- gossip girl
- the gossip girl reboot
- banal transsexuality
- 2012-2015
- america’s worst gay power couple
- climate control @ the club
- printers
- public images
- private non-existence
- bathrooms
- inverting sentences
- genre as legal theory
- ouroboroi
- warehouse topology
- wall mounting
- archives
- data compression
- meta-text
- eschatology
- you
J Xiang (he/she) is a poet-playwright & a failed mathematician. J was the 2024 Lili Elbe Fellow at Lambda Literary’s Emerging Writers Retreat, was an inaugural member of Primary Stage’s Echoes Writers Group, and of Kearny Street Workshop’s Interdisciplinary Writers Lab; has won the Seymour Brick Memorial Prize & Joseph Milton Fee Jr. Awards; a DUAF finalist, & an O’Neill NPC (x3), BAPF (x2), & Colt Coeur Residency semi-finalist. Poetry published by Black Warrior Review, DREGINALD, & Lunch Ticket, among others. MFA: Hunter College, playwriting, ’26; BA: Columbia, ’24.
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