Jeffrey Xiong (he/they) is a writer from the San Gabriel Valley. He currently studies fiction at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he is a reader for the Iowa Review, and a joint winner of the Richard Yates Short Story Contest. Before Iowa, they worked as a software engineer, and studied computer science and cognitive science at Rice University. He was a 2022 Kearny Street Workshop IWL Fellow, and a graduate of the Tin House Summer Workshop. Their fiction often experiments with genre, structure, and point of view, and can be found in Passages North, Nimrod, HAD, and the Micro Podcast. They enjoy contemporary art, photography, and watching other people play video games. They know too much about PDFs and too little about everything else.