Sophia Yang is an emerging writer based in Amiskwacîwâskahikan (Edmonton, Alberta). Born and raised in Northeast China, she moved to Canada alone at eighteen to pursue her degree in English literature and comparative literature at the University of Alberta.
She writes literary science fiction drawn to questions of memory, grief, dreams, and the boundaries of the self — what survives of a person when the mind is altered, erased, or rebuilt. Her nonfiction and narrative journalism have appeared in Canadian magazines including Edify and Legacy in Action, and her fiction draws on years of narrative practice.
She is currently at work on her debut novel, Dream Capturers, set in a near-future world reshaped by neural technology, in which a dream agent uncovers a glitch that unravels the boundary between her work and her own buried grief. Her influences include Kazuo Ishiguro, Ted Chiang, and Yoko Ogawa, writers who use speculative premises to examine intimate human loss.
