“I think being a writer is being heavily attuned to the absolute absurdity of things you take for granted, and I think that having actual parents who lived through the Cultural Revolution who are also interested in literature, they're also very attuned to those moments.”

American writer, poet, and essayist

Jenny Zhang is an American writer, poet, and essayist based in Brooklyn, New York. She is known for work that explores Chinese American immigrant identity and experience in the United States. She has published the poetry collection Dear Jenny, We Are All Find and the nonfiction chapbook Hags. From 2011 to 2014, she wrote extensively for Rookie, and she has also worked as a freelance essayist for other publications. Her short story collection Sour Heart was the first book acquired by Lena Dunham’s Lenny imprint, Lenny Books, through Random House, in 2017.