Cathy Xu

Cathy Xu is an emerging Chinese and Canadian storyteller, based in Vancouver, British Columbia on unceded xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) territories. Her work explores diasporic narratives and knowledge productions, bodies as archives of memory and homeland, and sites of BIPOC and queer resistance and futures. Xu is especially interested in storytelling through food and drawing from mythology and fantasy to imagine and claim identity. Her writing has been published in SAD Magazine, and she is the creator of a virtual platform, featuring oral histories and her artwork, entitled The Imaginary & Love: Women and Non-binary BIPOC Futures. In her day to day, she dreams of pastries and observing plants.