Born in 2007 in Shanghai, Tanya moved to Australia when she was 1 year-old. She advocates for environmental sustainability and volunteers with Hysteria, a student-run literary magazine, as its Chief Graphic Designer.

She loves Model United Nations and is very active in UN Youth activities in Australia, including Negotiations and the Evatt Cup. Currently, she is studying Agriculture, Latin and History as her electives and is thoroughly enjoying learning about the Ottoman Empire, subjunctive clauses, and how dairy farms operate.

Tanya enjoys designing posters in her spare time, watching video essays on how Tumblr’s unique format affects its user base and reading about heavy metal contamination in waterways.

Tanya joined Harbingers’ Magazine in the autumn of 2023, after she won the 2nd prize in The Harbinger Prize 2023 Essay on Humanities category.

She speaks English, Mandarin and Shanghai Dialect.