Wang Zhezhu is from Guangzhou and is a member of the Chinese Writers Association. Her short stories and novellas have appeared in many leading journals and been widely anthologized, including in the 2012 Chinese Best Novella Selection. Her novels include Laozhai, Glazed Summer, and Long River, which won the 2016 Dali Cup, and The Train that Stopped, which won the China Bookworm Literary Award.