Jenny Tinghui Zhang
Zhang at the 2022 Texas Book Festival
Born
Changchun, China
NationalityAmerican
EducationUniversity of Wyoming (MFA)
Occupations
  • novelist
  • essayist
Years active2015–present
Notable workFour Treasures of the Sky
Websitejennytinghui.com

Jenny Tinghui Zhang is a Chinese-American writer from Austin, Texas.[1]

Early life and education

Zhang was born in Changchun, China, 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, and her writing has appeared in The Rumpus, HuffPost, Catapult, Literary Hub, and The Cut.[2][3][4]

Career

Zhang's first novel, Four Treasures of the Sky, was published by Flatiron and Penguin in 2022. It was a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice, and was reviewed by NPR, The Washington Post, and Publishers Weekly, among others.[5][6][7][8][9]

Ann Patchett praised Zhang's "considerable talents" in writing an "engulfing, bighearted, and heartbreaking novel."[5] 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."[6]

Zhang has cited C Pam Zhang’s How Much of These Hills Is Gold, Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible, and Alexander Chee's Edinburgh as sources of inspiration for her writing.[10][11][12]

In 2022, Zhang told interviewers that she was working on her second novel.[11][13]

References

  1. ↑ "About". Jenny Tinghui Zhang. Retrieved 2022-06-13.
  2. ↑ "Jenny Tinghui Zhang". Macmillan. Retrieved 2022-07-12.
  3. ↑ Ermelino, Louisa (Nov 15, 2021). "East Meets West". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 2022-07-12.
  4. ↑ "Senior Editor: Jenny Tinghui Zhang". The Adroit Journal. 2019-08-03. Retrieved 2022-07-12.
  5. 1 2 "Four Treasures of the Sky". Macmillan. Retrieved 2022-06-13.
  6. 1 2 Egan, Jennifer (2022-04-03). "Abandoned, Trafficked, Living as a Man: A Chinese-American Coming of Age". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-06-13.
  7. ↑ "Novel 'Four Treasures of the Sky' depicts the human toll of the Chinese Exclusion Act". NPR.org. Retrieved 2022-06-13.
  8. ↑ "Fiction Book Review: Four Treasures of the Sky by Jenny Tinghui Zhang". Publishers Weekly. 2022-04-05. Retrieved 2022-06-13.
  9. ↑ Meloan, Becky. "10 noteworthy books for April". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2022-07-12.
  10. ↑ Wu, Kyle Lucia (Apr 28, 2022). "A Spiritual Victory: Jenny Tinghui Zhang Interviewed by Kyle Lucia Wu".
  11. 1 2 M., Daryl (May 12, 2022). "Interview With an Author: Jenny Tinghui Zhang". Los Angeles Public Library. Retrieved 2022-07-12.
  12. ↑ Vitcavage, Adam (2022-04-15). "A Life of Books: Jenny Tinghui Zhang". Debutiful. Retrieved 2022-07-12.
  13. ↑ "Austin writer's 'Four Treasures of the Sky' follows a Chinese immigrant in the Old West". Dallas News. 2022-04-04. Retrieved 2022-07-12.

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