X.H. Collins

X. H. Collins was born in Hechuan, Sichuan Province, China, and grew up in Kangding, on the East Tibet Plateau. Her short stories have placed in the Midwest Writing Center Iron Pen Contest and the River City Readers Flash Fiction Contests. Her writings have also appeared in the MOON magazine and its anthology Out of this World: The Best Short Stories from The MOON, and PastTen. She has a Ph.D in nutrition and is a biology professor at an Illinois community college. She lives in Iowa with her husband and son. Flowing Water, Falling Flowers is her first novel. To learn more about the author and her work, visit her website at https://xhcollins.com/, and follow her on Twitter @xixuan_c, Facebook @xhcollins, and Instagram xixuan_c.