Photo credit: Liu Xinyue, 2025

王占黑，1991年生于浙江嘉兴，目前居住在上海。平时写小说为主。曾获首届宝珀·理想国文学奖。已出版《空响炮》、《街道江湖》、《小花旦》和《正常接触》。

WANG Zhanhei (fiction writer) is the author of three short story collections: Air Cannon (2018), which won the inaugural Blancpain–Imaginist Literary Prize, Neighborhood Adventurers (2018), and Prima Donna (2020), which mostly focus on the lives of working‑class urban Chinese people.

She also published her fourth short story collection Normal Touch in 2024, which focused on the people and lives during the COVID years in China.

She participated in the fall residency of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa in 2023, and the Chinese Writers' Workshop at Hong Kong Baptist University in 2025.

Riverhead will publish an English edition of her novel Prima Donna in 2027.