Zhihao Zhang is one of the most renowned contemporary Chinese poets. He has won many prestigious awards, including the annual October Prize in 2011, the Chinese Literature Media Award for poetry (2013), Poet of the Year from the Chinese Literature Awards of Southern Daily (2014), the annual Chen Zi’ang Poetry Award (2016), and the Luxun Literary Prize for poetry (2017). Currently, he is executive editor of Chinese Poetry, a quarterly poetry magazine.