Shen Dacheng is a columnist, novelist, short story writer and editor. After graduating from Shanghai University in Industrial Management, she worked in marketing and then began a column (featuring short stories based on real characters’ lives) called ‘Strange People’ 《奇怪的人》 in the literary publication Sprout《萌芽》. Real name Xu Xiaoqian, she takes her pen name from a popular Shanghai pastry shop. Her first collection The Ones in Remembrance was published in 2017, and her newest collection Asteroids in the Afternoon was published in 2020. -- Paper Republic