Aiden Heung(He/They) was born in Muli Tibetan Autonomous County in the western part of Sichuan, on the edge of the great Tibetan Plateau, where he lived for the first ten years of his life before he moved to a small town near Chengdu, China.
He once called Shanghai home.
After working years as a traveling salesman first selling powder coatings, then organosilanes. He relocated to St.Louis, USA in 2023. He holds an MFA from Washington University in st. Louis as well as a business and a literature degree from China.
He and his work were supported by Swatch Art Peace Hotel Residency ( Switzerland, Shanghai), Hong Kong Proverse International Prize and Varuna Australian National Writers’ House Master Class. He writes both in Chinese and English. He currently serves as Assistant Poetry Editor of The Parentheses Journal.
His debut All There Is To Lose is the winner of Levis Prize in Poetry (USA), chosen by Ilya Kaminsky. It will be published by the prestigious Four Way Books in March 2026. A finalist of 2025 DISQUIET international literary contest(USA/Portugal), he is also the winner of 2025 Elinor Benedict Poetry Prize in USA, selected by Diane Seuss.
He is an avid reader of world literature, ask him about his favorite authors or talk to him about squash ( the sport, though he would also love to talk about the food) on X @aidenheung
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