Zhang Zhihao

Zhang Zhihao [张执浩] was born in Jingmen, Hubei province in 1965. His major poetry collections include Burdened by Praise (2006), Broad (2013), Wild Flowers on the Plateau (2017), To the Tune of Spring (2023), etc. Winner of many prestigious poetry awards, such as the Chinese Literature Media Award for Poetry, the annual Chen Zi’ang Poetry Award, and the Luxun Literary Prize for Poetry (Chinese equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize), Zhang has also published several novels, novellas, and multiple essay collections. Currently, he is editor-in-chief of Chinese Poetry, a quarterly poetry magazine in Wuhan, China.