Beina Xu is a Berlin-based writer, producer, and visual artist. Her writing has been published or is forthcoming in The Common, The Offing, Jezebel, Southern Humanities Review, SineTheta Magazine, and Deutsche Welle, among other outlets. Her essay film Forget Alberto for Now (2020) premiered at International Film Festival Rotterdam, and has won several awards. Her work has been supported by the Berlin Senatsverwaltung, the Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien, and the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, NY. She was a recipient of the 2023 Tin House Scholarship, and will be a 2024 artist-in-residence at Headlands Center for the Arts.