阎晶明，男，汉族，1961年生，山西人，获四川大学文学硕士学位。任职于山西省作家协会，现供职于中国作家协会。

2014年2月任中国作协书记处书记。

2021年12月，任中国作家协会副主席。

2022年10月，担任第五届施耐庵文学奖终评评委。

2023年3月，任第十四届全国政协文化文史和学习委员会副主任。

2023年5月，任第六届林斤澜短篇小说奖评委会主任、中国作协副主席。

第十三届全国政协文化文史和学习委员会委员。第十三届、十四届全国政协委员。中国作家协会第九届、第十届全国委员会委员。

2023年12月9日，阎晶明的专栏作品《读典有识》荣获第五届《雨花》文学奖散文奖。

出版有著作《十年流变———新时期文学侧面观》（1992年）、《批评的策略》（1996年）、《鲁迅的文化视野》（2001年）、《鲁迅与陈西滢》（2001年）、《独白与对话》（2004年）等，主编有《鲁迅演讲集》、《新批评文丛》、“大西部长篇小说丛书”等。

《鲁迅与陈西滢》，河北人民出版社 2002，262页 I S B N ： 9787202026489

《鲁迅的文化视野》，北京: 昆仑出版社, 2001. 2004, 285页, ISBN, 7-80040-757-8,

《独白与对话》，出版社：山东文艺出版社，10/01/2004 ，ISBN：7532923444

A well known writer,a famous Novelist and Literature Critic, he was born in Shanxi province of China in 1961. He graduated from the Shanxi University with a BA Degree in 1983, his first degree in Chinese literature, as the first professional is China Ancient Literature, same year, he has gained admission to the Department of Chinese Literature of Shaanxi Normal University, become a full-time post-graduate student for study to Lu Xun and history of modern Chinese literary , and then he post-graduated from the Sichuan University and access to a Literature Master 's degree in 1986.

1986-2002， He has a position in Branch Association of Shanxi of China Writers Association at Taiyuan city, now He holds a position in the China Writers Association at Beijing. he has published many book， For example the following books，Decade of Evolution --The New Era Literary Sde View(1992), Criticized the strategy (1996),Lu Xun's Cultural Vision(2001), Lu Xun and Chen Xi Ying (2001),Monologues and Dialogue (2004), and he became Editor-in-Chief of The Lu Xun's Seech ,New Citicism Series, Novel Series for the Great Western China，etcetera.

April 2002 , The visit is the result of an invitation the U.S. Eastern Culture Foundation，the Association of Chinese Writers and the Yale University， he with a delegation of China Writers Association to visited the Los Angeles, Washington, New York and other cities, on a visit to the Yale University and Mark Twain‘s Former Residence for cultural exchanges.

He accessed to The Youth Critics Award of The Second Session of the Feng Mu Literature Prize of China. （Translated by Nan Ke Zhou）