Xu Xi (www.xuxiwriter.com) is the author of nine books of fiction and essays. Her most recent titles are a story collection, Access: Thirteen Tales (Signal 8 Press, 2011), and the novel Habit of a Foreign Sky (Haven Books, 2010), which was shortlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize. She is currently faculty chair of the MFA in Writing at Vermont College of Fine Arts and is the full-time Writer-in-Residence at the Department of English, City University of Hong Kong, where she directs the first international low-residency MFA in creative writing that focuses on Asia.
Spring 2012
All About Skin
I went to Derma the week before Christmas to buy an american skin. I was apprehensive because Derma’s expensive and doesn’t allow trade-ins. But their salesman gave me credit on pretty generous terms, and let me take it away the same day, which made me feel good.