Biography

Born and raised in Shanghai, Flora Qian left home in her early twenties and has spent most of her time in Hong Kong. She has also lived in Washington D.C. and Singapore. Her short fiction has appeared in the Asia Literary Review, Eastlit and a few anthologies. A graduate of Fudan University in Shanghai, she has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Maryland and an MA in Translation from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her first novel, South of the Yangtze, was published by Proverse Hong Kong in November 2023, winner of the Proverse Prize 2022.