Zhao Haihong was born in Hangzhou in 1977 and graduated from the foreign languages department of Zhejiang University.
[1] Zhao already started in high school to write her first short stories.
Apart from science fiction, she has also published a number of martial arts stories.
[2] For her science fiction stories, Zhao has received the Chinese Galaxy Award several times[3] and her fans awarded her the unofficial title of "princess of Chinese science fiction.
[4] Han Song proclaimed to be a fan of hers and praised her vivid literary style and her lifelike characters which he believes to be hardly matched in Chinese or international science fiction.