Xiaowen Zeng

Xiaowen Zeng（Chinese 曾晓文） is a Chinese author living in Toronto, Canada. She was born in Heilongjiang, China, and received a Master degree in Literature from Nankai University, and a Master of Science from Syracuse University. She lived in the USA for 9 years, and immigrated to Canada in 2003. She currently works as an information systems manager. She is the vice- president of Chinese Pen Society of Canada, and a weekly columnist in the newspaper Sing Tao Daily. She has published a few hundred short stories, pieces of prose, poems, and essays. Her works have been included in a number of literature collections.

Awards

* Literature award from Central Daily News in 1996 for short story “The Netter”.
* United Daily Literature Award for short story "The Spinning Coin" in 2004
* “The love and Mystery of Prague” won third place in World Chinese Travelogue Competition in 2008

Bibliography

* Shattered Dream in Texas (《梦断得克萨斯》Meng duan Dekesasi). Tianjin Bai Hua Publishing House (2006) [ISBN 7-5306-4360-6]

External links

* [http://blog.sina.com.cn/zengxiaowen Zeng Xiaowen’s blog]
* [http://www.zengxiaowen.com/ Zeng Xiaowen’s Website]
* [http://book.sina.com.cn/nzt/lit/mddkss/ Full text of Shattered Dream in Texas (in Chinese)]
* [http://dlll.yorku.ca/chinese/china_week_06/China_week_06_authors.htm Zeng Xiaowen at York University Reading]
* [http://www.cpscnet.com/ Chinese Pen Society of Canada’s Website]
* [http://www.ccue.com/blog/blog/cpsc Chinese Pen Society of Canada’s Blog]