HUANG Zhao Jing was born in Chong Qing and has degrees in International Relations, Political Science and Regional Planning from Peking University, University of Cambridge and Cornell University. Her short stories, proses, poems, academic articles on social and political theories and cultural criticism essays have appeared in newspapers and magazines in Asia and the UK. She is the author of two previous Chinese novels, Once Upon a Time in Sin Chew (2011) and To Pravda (2013). One of her stories was shortlisted for the New Writers Award by Glimmer Train in 2016. She is based in Copenhagen and is currently a columnist contributing Nordic cultural content for The News Lens, an independent digital media in the global Mandarin market. 

She has lived in NYC and Singapore as a space planning strategist, whereas her nonprofit work in managing UN and EU development projects and European cultural exchange programmes has led her to many regions of inequality and poverty in Asia. Her reflections on the social and economic disparity and appreciation of the rich cultural heritage in Southeast Asia have given rise to Bach Underwater, her first novel in English.