Novelist and VR game designer Xiao Xiang Shen is a member of Taipei Legend Studio and an avid researcher of local folklore whose work brings the mystical side of urban spaces to life. He has written multiple novels set in Taiwan during the Japanese occupation, as well as a reference manual of creatures from Taiwanese folklore which became the basis for a well-known virtual reality game. His most recent representative work is the fantasy novel Man-Made Gods, shortlisted for several awards including the Golden Tripod Award. And Chopsticks, his fiction collaboration with Mitsuda Shinzo, Xerses, JeTauZi, and Chan Ho-Kei, has been translated into English, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, and Thai editions.