Size / / /

Vivian (Xiao Wen) Li is a queer and neurodivergent 1.5-generation Chinese-Canadian immigrant writer, musician, and interdisciplinary artist. Her fiction/poetry have been published or are forthcoming in Strange Horizons, Uncanny, F&SF, Heartlines Spec, The Massachusetts Review, The New Quarterly, The Humber Literary Review, QWERTY, and The Fiddlehead, among others. The author of Someday I Promise, I'll Love You (845 Press) and a Banff Centre alumnus in poetry, she is the writer and director of three short films—including an award-winning video poem—that have premiered internationally in festivals. She was Longlisted for the 2024 CBC Short Story Prize, Shortlisted for the Vancouver City Poems Contest, a Finalist for The Kenyon Review Short Nonfiction Contest, a 2024 ScreenCraft TV Pilot Script Competition Semifinalist, and the winner in the short story category of the CWC Sustaining Shared Futures Writing Award. She was nominated by Heartlines Spec for Year's Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction: Volume Two, and was most recently an editor for Augur. She has recently graduated with an MFA in Creative Writing at The University of British Columbia, and will be looking for a home for her debut experimental novel. She can be found sprinting from spiders and drinking bubble tea @vivianlicreates on Instagram, Bluesky, and Mastodon.


Current Issue
17 Feb 2025

crocodile, crocodile, may we cross your river?
We have always / been a ghosthouse
In this episode of Strange Horizons at 25, Kat Kourbeti sits down with longtime friend and Seattle Worldcon Poet Laureate Brandon O'Brien, chatting all things speculative poetry, and the impact of markets that have many readers and editors—hey wait, that's us!
The city is no place for a spider.
Issue 10 Feb 2025
By: Alexandra Munck
Podcast read by: Claire McNerney
Issue 27 Jan 2025
By: River
Issue 20 Jan 2025
Strange Horizons
By: Michelle Kulwicki
Podcast read by: Emmie Christie
Issue 13 Jan 2025
Issue 6 Jan 2025
By: Samantha Murray
Podcast read by: Jenna Hanchey
Issue 23 Dec 2024
Issue 16 Dec 2024
Issue 9 Dec 2024
Issue 2 Dec 2024
By: E.M. Linden
Podcast read by: Jenna Hanchey
Issue 25 Nov 2024
Load More