XING ZHAO

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XING ZHAO is a writer and translator. He is the 2023/2024 recipient of the David T.K. Wong Creative Writing Fellowship, awarded annually by the University of East Anglia to a fiction writer working on a novel about East Asia and Southeast Asia.

He holds a Master’s degree in Cultural Studies from the University of Edinburgh. He worked as a gallerist and journalist in Shanghai and has written about con-temporary art, design, and queer cultures in China. His work has appeared in publications including The Washington Post, Architectural Digest, The Art Newspaper, The World from PRX, Literary Shanghai, Time Out Shanghai, OutThere Magazine, City Weekend, and Numéro. He also works in the audio form as a script editor and voice actor for a storytelling podcast. He is interested in exploring ideas such as memory, nostalgia, displacement, and imagined reality in his writing. He is currently working on a collection of short stories and a first novel, set in contemporary Shanghai.

To contact him, please email at kapazhao@gmail.com.