WEN Zhen, born in 1982 in Hunan province, is the youngest Lao She Literature Prize winner and among the first group of MA graduates in Creative Writing in China from Peking University. In 2015, she won the “New Writer of The Year” of the Chinese Literature Media Awards with her work The Last Night We Were Together.
Dave Haysom has been translating, editing, and writing about contemporary Chinese literature since 2012. He has translated novels by Feng Tang, Li Er, and Xu Zechen. He was joint managing editor of Pathlight magazine from 2014 to 2018, and editor-in-chief of the Read Paper Republic project in 2015.