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.
