Jenny Tinghui Zhang

Jenny Tinghui Zhang is a Chinese-American writer best known for her debut novel, Four Treasures of the Sky.

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.

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.

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

In 2022, Zhang told interviewers that she was working on her second novel. That work, Superfan, will be published in the USA by Macmillan on February 3, 2026 and in the UK by Penguin on February 19, 2026.

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