Xiao Yue Shan is a poet, writer, translator, and editor born in China and now living on Vancouver Island. then telling be the antidote won the Tupelo Press Berkshire Prize and was published in 2024. How Often I Have Chosen Love won the Frontier Poetry Chapbook Prize and was published in 2019. She is one of the editors and translators of Ten Thousand Miles of Clouds and Moons: New Chinese Writing, an anthology published in 2025.