Yan F. Zhang is a Chinese British fiction writer and artist.
She is the winner of The Guardian and 4th Estate 4thWrite Short Story Prize 2024 and her winning story appears in The Guardian online.
She is an alum of the Napa Valley Writers Conference and Southampton Writers Conference fiction workshops.
Other writing has been selected as a finalist for the Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park Short Story Contest 2025, a semi-finalist for the Tucson Festival of Books Literary Awards 2025, shortlisted for the Surrey New Writing Prize 2024, and longlisted for The Literary Consultancy Pen Factor Prize 2023.
A veritable lover of campus life, she is a graduate of Harvard Law School, University of Cambridge, City St Georges University of London, and University of York, UK.
She is working on her debut novel.
