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Beina Xu is a writer, producer, and visual artist in Berlin.

Her essays and fiction have been published in Southern Humanities Review, The Common, Jezebel, Gutter, and Extra Teeth, among other outlets. Her essay “Bonus Child” was nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and was an honorable mention in the Best American Nonfiction 2025 anthology. Her short story “Personal Hotspot” was a semi-finalist for the American Short(er) Fiction Prize 2025, judged by Tony Tulathimutte.

Her essay film Forget Alberto For Now premiered at International Film Festival Rotterdam, and won the WDR Prize (Kurzfilmfestival Köln) and Best Narrative Innovation Prize (Filmfest Bremen).

She been supported by the BKM (Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien), the Berlin Senatsverwaltung, Tin House, and was a resident of the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, NY and Headlands Center For The Arts. She is a graduate of the Granta Writer’s Workshop.

Currently, she is the fiction editor at SAND Journal, a producer at Deutsche Welle, and teaches creative writing workshops at the International Literature Festival Berlin. In an extremely distant lifetime, she worked at the Wall Street Journal/Dow Jones in New York, and the Financial Times in Beijing.

She also paints.