Xiaole Zhan (詹小乐)

Xiaole Zhan (詹小乐) is a Chinese-Aotearoa writer and composer based in Naarm. Their work features in Auckland University Press’s New Poets 11. They are a 2025 Creative New Zealand Fellowship recipient, a 2025 Red Room Poetry Varuna Fellowship recipient, the 2024 Kat Muscat Fellow, as well as the winner of the 2023 Kill Your Darlings Non-Fiction Prize and 2023 Landfall Young Writers' Essay Prize. Their name in Chinese means ‘Little Happy’, but can also be read as ‘Little Music’.