Xiaoly Li

Xiaoly Li received a 2022 Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship Grant, and her poetry collection Every Single Bird Rising (FutureCycle Press, 2023) was a Zone 3 Book Award finalist. Her poetry collection Wakening Between Worlds (Serving House Books, 2026) was short-listed for the 2024 Cinnamon Literature Award, a finalist for the 2023 Diode and 2024 Washington Prize, and she’s been nominated for Best New Poets, a Pushcart Prize (five times), and Best of the Net (four times).

Xiaoly Li's work appears in Issue 47.1 Summer/Fall 2026.