Zhang Ling

Zhang Ling is the award-winning author of nine novels and numerous collections of novellas and short stories. Born in China, she moved to Canada in 1986. In the mid-1990s, she began to write and publish fiction in Chinese while working as a clinical audiologist. Since then she has won the Chinese Media Literature Award for Author of the Year, the Grand Prize of Overseas Chinese Literary Award, and Taiwan’s Open Book Award. Among Zhang Ling’s work are A Single Swallow (translated by Shelly Bryant), Gold Mountain Blues (translated by Nicky Harman) and Aftershock, adapted into China’s first IMAX movie with unprecedented box-office success. Where Waters Meet is her first novel written in English. You can find me at: www.zhanglingwriter.com