Jenny Tinghui Zhang is a Chinese-American writer from
Austin, Texas.
Early life and education
Zhang was born in
Changchun, China
Changchun (, ; ), also romanized as Ch'angch'un, is the capital and largest city of Jilin Province, People's Republic of China. Lying in the center of the Songliao Plain, Changchun is administered as a , comprising 7 districts, 1 county and 3 c ...
, and grew up in Austin, Texas, and
Oxford, Mississippi. She received an MFA from the
University of Wyoming. She is an editor for ''
The Adroit Journal
''The Adroit Journal'' is an American literary magazine founded in November 2010. Published five times per year by founding editor Peter LaBerge, the journal was produced with the support of the University of Pennsylvania's Kelly Writers House f ...
'', and her writing has appeared in ''
The Rumpus'', ''
HuffPost'',
''Catapult'', ''
Literary Hub'', and
''The Cut''.
Career
Zhang's first novel, ''Four Treasures of the Sky'', was published by
Flatiron and
Penguin
Penguins (order (biology), order List of Sphenisciformes by population, Sphenisciformes , family (biology), family Spheniscidae ) are a group of Water bird, aquatic flightless birds. They live almost exclusively in the Southern Hemisphere: on ...
in 2022. It was a
New York Times Book Review
''The New York Times Book Review'' (''NYTBR'') is a weekly paper-magazine supplement to the Sunday edition of ''The New York Times'' in which current non-fiction and fiction books are reviewed. It is one of the most influential and widely rea ...
Editor's Choice, and was reviewed by
NPR,
The Washington Post, and
Publishers Weekly, among others.
praised Zhang's "considerable talents" in writing an "engulfing, bighearted, and heartbreaking novel."
In her ''New York Times'' review of ''Four Treasures of the Sky'',
Jennifer Egan described Zhang's writing as "engrossing" and "an arresting combination of earthy and lyric."
Zhang has cited
C Pam Zhang
C Pam Zhang (born 1990) is an American writer. Her debut novel, '' How Much of These Hills Is Gold'', was released by Riverhead Books in 2020 and was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award and long-listed for the 2020 Booker Prize. The same ye ...
’s ''
How Much of These Hills Is Gold
''How Much of These Hills Is Gold'' is a 2020 debut novel by American author C Pam Zhang. It was longlisted for the Booker Prize and won the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature for Adult Fiction. The book was published by Riverhead Books ...
'',
Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver (born April 8, 1955) is an American novelist, essayist and poet. She was raised in rural Kentucky and lived briefly in the Congo in her early childhood. Kingsolver earned degrees in biology at DePauw University and the Univers ...
's ''
The Poisonwood Bible'', and
Alexander Chee's ''
Edinburgh'' as sources of inspiration for her writing.
In 2022, Zhang told interviewers that she was working on her second novel.
References
Further reading
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External links
Official website
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Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American novelists
American writers of Chinese descent
American women novelists
Living people
Chinese emigrants to the United States
University of Wyoming alumni
Novelists from Texas