![]() So it was a little test to myself, wanting to show that every type of story is possible with these characters. When I was writing stories about Chinese American characters in my fiction classes I’d get comments like: “You should consider writing more universal stories.” But anything can happen to a Chinese American girl – just as much of the canon of English literature involves white men or women. What inspired you to write these stories? Sour Heart, a collection of short stories about New York’s Chinese American community largely told from the point of view of young girls, is the first book published by Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner’s Lenny imprint at Random House in the US. She has two published collections of poetry, Hags and Dear Jenny, We Are All Find, for which Zhang was compared to “a 21st-century Whitman, only female, Chinese, and profoundly scatological”. She is a graduate of Stanford University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop for fiction. ![]() J enny Zhang, 33, was born in Shanghai and raised in New York. ![]()
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