Born in 1982, Wen Zhen writes fiction, essays, and poetry. She studied for a master’s degree at the Chinese department of Peking University and has published short stories in literary journals including People’s Literature and Dangdai. Wen Zhen has published two fiction collections, Eleven Flavours of Love (which includes the novella for which she received a Lao She Literature Prize in 2014) and The Last Night We Were Together, and currently works as an editor at People’s Literature Publishing House. A selection of her poetry was published in the Summer 2016 issue of Pathlight.