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Jenny Tinghui Zhang

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Changchun, China

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Fiction, Nonfiction

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May 2010

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Jenny Tinghui Zhang is a Texas-based Chinese-American writer and the author of Four Treasures of the Sky (forthcoming from Flatiron Books on April 5, 2022). She is a Kundiman fellow and graduate of the VONA/Voices and Tin House workshops. Her work has appeared in Apogee, Ninth Letter, Passages North, The Rumpus, HuffPost, The Cut, Catapult, and more.

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Average rating: 4.08 · 20,114 ratings · 3,082 reviews · 4 distinct works • Similar authors

	Four Treasures of the Sky 4.08 avg rating — 19,836 ratings — published 2022 — 38 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Body Language: Writers on Identity, Physicality, and Making Space for Ourselves by Nicole Chung (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Matt Ortile (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Nina Riggs (Contributor) 4.02 avg rating — 270 ratings — published 2022 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Superfan 4.09 avg rating — 22 ratings — expected publication 2026 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Passages North No. 41 by Jennifer A. Howard (Goodreads Author) (Editor), James Todd Adcox, Brianna Albers (Goodreads Author) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

by Hanif Abdurraqib

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How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America

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Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

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“There is no such thing as luck, I told him. Luck is just readiness that meets opportunity.”
― Jenny Tinghui Zhang, Four Treasures of the Sky

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“My life was written for me from the moment the name was given to me. Or it was not. That is the true beauty. That is the intent. We can practice all we want, telling and retelling the same story, but the story that comes out of your mouth, from your brush, is one that only you can tell. So let it be. Let your story be yours, and my story be mine.”
― Jenny Tinghui Zhang, Four Treasures of the Sky

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“Every calligrapher, every artist, starts the same way, he said. They set out to create art. But this intentionality is what makes the art become work rather than art. What you must practice is creating art without a destination or plan in mind, relying only on your discipline and training and good spirit. This is a stage few calligraphers will ever reach. This is what following your heart looks like.”
― Jenny Tinghui Zhang, Four Treasures of the Sky

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Polls

September BoTM Nominations ~ 1st Poll ~ Debut Novel
Top 5 nominations move onto final poll

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

by Rachel Joyce

9 votes, 31.0%

Miracle Creek

by Angie Kim

6 votes, 20.7%

Lincoln in the Bardo

by George Saunders

5 votes, 17.2%

The Writing Retreat

by Julia Bartz

3 votes, 10.3%

Woman of Light

by Kali Fajardo-Anstine

2 votes, 6.9%

Nightcrawling

by Leila Mottley

2 votes, 6.9%

Swan Light

by Phoebe Rowe

1 vote, 3.4%

Four Treasures of the Sky

by Jenny Tinghui Zhang

1 vote, 3.4%

The Collected Regrets of Clover

by Mikki Brammer

0 votes, 0.0%

142 Ostriches

by April Davila

0 votes, 0.0%

29 total votes

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