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. His short story “Taipei Scrolls” won a bronze medal at the Kadokawa Fiction Awards in 2012, as well as the King Car Fantasy Fiction Prize in 2014. 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. Rights to Chopsticks – his fiction collaboration with Mitsuda Shinzo, Xerses, JeTauZi, and Chan Ho-Kei – have already been sold in Japan, Korea, Vietnam, and Thailand.