Zhong Xiaoyang or Sharon Chung 鍾曉陽 is a modern Hong Kong writer currently residing in Australia.
Her father was an Indonesian doctor of Chinese descent,[1] while her mother was from Shenyang, China.
There, she attended Maryknoll Girls' School in Hong Kong and then came to America to study film at University of Michigan.
[2] She published her first work of fiction Halt, May I Ask (停車暫借問) in 1981, at the age of 18,[4] which received the Unitas Literature Award.
[5] In 1998, she published four volumes of poetry called Dead Tree and Extinguished Ashes (槁木死灰集): These poems, written stream of consciousness style, come across as dark but still sensitive to human emotion.