Xiaole Zhan is a Chinese-New Zealand writer and composer who has been based in Naarm/Melbourne. They were the winner of the National Schools Poetry Award in 2019, and joint winner of the Sargeson Short Story Prize Secondary Schools Division in 2019. They were a 2024 Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellow.
They won the 2023 KYD Creative Non-fiction Award for 'Think an Empty Room, Moonly with Phone Glow'.
Sources include cordite.org.au/poetry/notheme12/rent-free/)
