Lijia Xie (she/her) is a poet, immigrant, and a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at Stanford. She was born in Beijing and grew up in the San Francisco Tenderloin neighborhood. She earned a BA and MS from UC Berkeley and a MD from UC San Francisco. Her first collection of poems, Public Airing, received the UC Berkeley Eisner Prize. She is a MFA student at Warren Wilson College. She has received fellowships from Writing By Writers and SF Writers Grotto Rooted & Written BIPOC Writers Conference. She lives in Oakland, CA with her family.