One of Taiwan’s most acclaimed young writers, novelist and poet Egoyan Zheng has garnered numerous domestic literary prizes. His novel Fleeting Light was longlisted for the 2007 Man Asia Literature Prize, and his short story collection The Man in the Urn was longlisted for the 2008 Frank O’Connor short story award. A former writer-in-residence at the Literarisches Colloquium Berlin and the International Writers’ Workshop Hong Kong, Zheng holds an MA in Chinese Literature and studied psychology and medicine in Taiwan’s top universities. His previous work Ground Zero has been translated into Japanese, Korean, and Czech.