Zhang Lingling was born in Jiangsu in 1986. She won the 2016 Zhejiang Literary Star Outstanding Award, 2015-2017 Zhejiang Outstanding Award, the First Short Story Biennial Award, and the 2018 Shandong Literature Award. Novels can be found in October, Flower City, Writer, Shanhua, Youth Literature, Yangtze River Literature, Fiction Circle, Selected Novels and other magazines. She has published a shorty story collection Jealousy.