Wang Xiaoni (Chinese: 王小妮; pinyin: Wáng Xiǎoní) (born 1955) is a Chinese poet.

Xiaoni graduated from Jilin University in 1982 where she was a literary editor and worked for a film studio. In 1985, she settled in Shenzhen and became a professor at Hainan University. She has published over 25 books of poetry^[1] and won several awards.^[2] In 2015 the translation of her book Something Crosses My Mind by Eleanor Goodman was shortlisted for the International Griffin Poetry Prize.^[3] Other translations of her work have been published by poet Pascale Petit.

Published works

• My Selected Poems (1986)
• On Visiting Friends (1992-1993)
• Exile in Shenzhen (1994)
• My Paper Wraps My Fire (1997)
• Something Crosses My Mind (2014)