Draft:Feng Qiuzhi

Feng Qiuzhi (real name Feng, Dehua), born in 1960 in Inner Mongolia, is a writer, editor, and artist. She is a representative author of the new Chinese prose movement. She graduated from Beijing Broadcasting Institute (now Communication University of China) in July 1983 and remained there to teach. From July 1985, she served as an editor at the Writers Publishing House, supervised by the Chinese Writers Association, and later held positions such as head of the supplement department of the Literary and Art News deputy editor-in-chief of the poetry journal Poetry and deputy director of both the Creative Liaison Department and the Social Liaison Department of the Chinese Writers Association. She retired in March 2020. In the early and mid-1980s, she wrote novels but later focused on prose, non-fiction literature, and literary criticism. Her works have been included in over 400 anthologies. She is a member of the Chinese Writers Association, the Chinese Prose Society, the Chinese Poetry Society, and the Beijing Writers Association. Additionally, she serves as a member of the Prose Committee and a standing committee member of the Ecological Literature Committee of the Chinese Writers Association. She has served as a final judge for six editions of the Lu Xun Literature Award, five editions of the Junma Award for National Minority Literature and has been a preliminary and final judge for the National Excellent Popular Science Works Award.