Born in Shanghai, Shen Danqi studied operations research and financial engineering at Princeton. After graduating, she spent several years performing macroeconomic policy analysis and formulation at the Federal Reserve Bank in Boston, before she returned to university to complete a master’s in international development at the Harvard Kennedy School. In 2010 she started to take a serious interest in longform non-fiction and shortform fiction, and in 2014 she published her first book, Ziyou de laohu (Freedom of the Tiger), a collection of profiles and interviews with Princeton graduates. Shen Danqi’s fiction has been published in Chinese literary journals such as People’s Literature, Today, Shanghai Literature and NEWriting, and her short story anthology Zongguo tese de yiwen duzhe (A Reader of Translations With Chinese Characteristics) was published in 2016. She currently lives in San Francisco.

沈诞琦。上海人。普林斯顿大学本科毕业，专业运筹与金融工程。毕业后在美国联邦储蓄所波士顿分行从事宏观经济政策分析与制定。工作几年后重回大学攻读硕士学位，毕业于哈佛大学肯尼迪学院国际发展专业。现居旧金山。2010年起开始对非虚构类长报道和中短篇小说产生严肃的兴趣。2014年春出版了个人第一本书《自由的老虎》，为过去几年对普林斯顿校友的采访和调查的非虚构报道集子。2016年10月出版中短篇小说集《中国特色的译文读者》。虚构类作品还散见于《人民文学》、《今天》、《上海文学》、《鲤》等杂志。