张学东，1972年生。中国作家协会会员。宁夏文坛"新三棵树"之一。曾在鲁迅文学院、上海作家研究生班研读。现任宁夏文联《朔方》副主编。迄今公开发表小说约350万字，部分作品被转载或被译介到海外发表，多次荣登国内权威性小说排行榜，获多种文学奖项，两度入围鲁迅文学奖，宁夏文学艺术小说一等奖。长篇小说《超低空滑翔》被列为中国作协全国重点作品系列，长篇小说《西北往事》入展中国作协、中国现代文学馆"新中国60年文学成就展暨建国以来优秀长篇小说"。已出版中、短篇小说集《跪乳时期的羊》《水火》等7部、长篇小说《妙音鸟》《人脉》等5部。Zhang Xuedong, born in 1972, is a member of China Writers' Association and one of the three new figures in the literary circle of Ningxia. He once studied in Luxun College of Arts and the postgraduate courses for Shanghai writers. He now is the associate editor of The North of the Ningxia Federation. So far, he has published about 3.5 million of novels and a part of his works are reloaded or translated outside China for publication. He has been repeatedly enlisted to the domestic authoritative novels and has won many literary awards. He has been shortlisted for Lu Xun Literary Prize twice and once won the first prize of novels in Ningxia Literary Circle. His full-length novel Sliding at a Super-Low-Altitude was listed as one of the national key work series by China Writers' Association and his full-length novel The Bygones in The Northwest was exhibited in China Writers' Association and the National Museum of Modern Chinese Literature as "the excellent full-length novels since the establishment of PRC of the literary achievements of new China in the past 60 years". He has published 7 middle-length and short novels, like Sheep in Knelt Milk Period and Water & Fire, and 5 full-length novels like Mysterious Songbird and Human Network.