diff --git a/packages/schema/src/plugins/zod/generator.ts b/packages/schema/src/plugins/zod/generator.ts
index aeb7bdd83..08734dc0c 100644
--- a/packages/schema/src/plugins/zod/generator.ts
+++ b/packages/schema/src/plugins/zod/generator.ts
@@ -7,24 +7,28 @@ import {
     emitProject,
     getDataModels,
     getLiteral,
+    getPrismaClientImportSpec,
     hasAttribute,
+    isEnumFieldReference,
     isForeignKeyField,
     resolvePath,
     saveProject,
 } from '@zenstackhq/sdk';
-import { DataModel, DataSource, Model, isDataModel, isDataSource, isEnum } from '@zenstackhq/sdk/ast';
+import { DataModel, DataSource, EnumField, Model, isDataModel, isDataSource, isEnum } from '@zenstackhq/sdk/ast';
 import {
     AggregateOperationSupport,
     addMissingInputObjectTypes,
     resolveAggregateOperationSupport,
 } from '@zenstackhq/sdk/dmmf-helpers';
 import { promises as fs } from 'fs';
+import { streamAllContents } from 'langium';
 import path from 'path';
 import { Project } from 'ts-morph';
+import { upperCaseFirst } from 'upper-case-first';
+import { isFromStdlib } from '../../language-server/utils';
 import { getDefaultOutputFolder } from '../plugin-utils';
 import Transformer from './transformer';
 import removeDir from './utils/removeDir';
-import { upperCaseFirst } from 'upper-case-first';
 import { makeFieldSchema, makeValidationRefinements } from './utils/schema-gen';
 
 export async function generate(model: Model, options: PluginOptions, dmmf: DMMF.Document) {
@@ -176,8 +180,6 @@ async function generateModelSchema(model: DataModel, project: Project, output: s
         overwrite: true,
     });
     sf.replaceWithText((writer) => {
-        writer.writeLine('/* eslint-disable */');
-
         const fields = model.fields.filter(
             (field) =>
                 !AUXILIARY_FIELDS.includes(field.name) &&
@@ -186,9 +188,25 @@ async function generateModelSchema(model: DataModel, project: Project, output: s
                 !isForeignKeyField(field)
         );
 
+        writer.writeLine('/* eslint-disable */');
         writer.writeLine(`import { z } from 'zod';`);
 
-        // import enums
+        // import user-defined enums from Prisma as they might be referenced in the expressions
+        const importEnums = new Set<string>();
+        for (const node of streamAllContents(model)) {
+            if (isEnumFieldReference(node)) {
+                const field = node.target.ref as EnumField;
+                if (!isFromStdlib(field.$container)) {
+                    importEnums.add(field.$container.name);
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        if (importEnums.size > 0) {
+            const prismaImport = getPrismaClientImportSpec(model.$container, path.join(output, 'models'));
+            writer.writeLine(`import { ${[...importEnums].join(', ')} } from '${prismaImport}';`);
+        }
+
+        // import enum schemas
         for (const field of fields) {
             if (field.type.reference?.ref && isEnum(field.type.reference?.ref)) {
                 const name = upperCaseFirst(field.type.reference?.ref.name);
@@ -205,9 +223,9 @@ async function generateModelSchema(model: DataModel, project: Project, output: s
         });
         writer.writeLine(');');
 
+        // compile "@@validate" to ".refine"
         const refinements = makeValidationRefinements(model);
         if (refinements.length > 0) {
-            console.log('Generated refinements:', refinements);
             writer.writeLine(`function refine(schema: z.ZodType) { return schema${refinements.join('\n')}; }`);
         }
 
diff --git a/packages/sdk/src/utils.ts b/packages/sdk/src/utils.ts
index 3a1cdb72d..3b26c01f1 100644
--- a/packages/sdk/src/utils.ts
+++ b/packages/sdk/src/utils.ts
@@ -133,8 +133,8 @@ export function getAttributeArgLiteral<T extends string | number | boolean>(
     return undefined;
 }
 
-export function isEnumFieldReference(expr: Expression): expr is ReferenceExpr {
-    return isReferenceExpr(expr) && isEnumField(expr.target.ref);
+export function isEnumFieldReference(node: AstNode): node is ReferenceExpr {
+    return isReferenceExpr(node) && isEnumField(node.target.ref);
 }
 
 /**