Jenny Tinghui Zhang is a Chinese-American writer from Austin, Texas.

[1] Zhang was born in Changchun, China, and grew up in Austin, Texas, and Oxford, Mississippi.

She is an editor for The Adroit Journal, and her writing has appeared in The Rumpus, HuffPost, Catapult, Literary Hub, and The Cut.

[5][6][7][8][9] Ann Patchett praised Zhang's "considerable talents" in writing an "engulfing, bighearted, and heartbreaking novel.

"[5] In her New York Times review of Four Treasures of the Sky, Jennifer Egan described Zhang's writing as "engrossing" and "an arresting combination of earthy and lyric.