Xiao Yue Shan
From 15 October to 9 December 2024

Xiao Yue Shan is a Chinese-born poet, writer, editor, and translator now living on Vancouver Island, Canada. In How Often I Have Chosen Love (Discover New Art LLC, 2019), winner of the Frontier Poetry Chapbook Prize, she explores her connection to family and the notion of home as a Chinese woman living in exile. In 2021, her collection then telling be the antidote (Tupelo Press, 2024) won the Tupelo Press Berkshire Prize. Her work has appeared in numerous journals and reviews, and has enjoyed the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the British Columbia Arts Council, and the Arts Council Tokyo. She is also the editor-in-chief of the bilingual literary magazine Spittoon and the blog Asymptote Journal. She has served as one of the translators and editors of Ten Thousand Miles of Clouds and Moons: New Chinese Writing, an anthology published by Honford Star in January 2025.