James X. Wang is a writer, physician, and Chinese-Canadian settler on the unceded Indigenous lands of Vancouver. His poems have been published in Canadian literary magazines and two collaborative chapbooks ("Brine" and "Adventitious Sounds"). His work has also been featured at the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden, CBC Radio, Mountain View Cemetery, and the Mount Pleasant Community Art Screen. He is a member of the emerging poets group "Harbour Centre 5".

Drawing from his experience as a "1.5-generation" immigrant, the dynamic space between old and new Chinese cultures is a frequent theme in his poetry. His poem "Found" was inspired by the Chinese bachelors buried without names or identities at Vancouver's Mountain View Cemetery at the turn of the 20th century. One of his newest and yet unpublished poems, "after excluding a Chinaman at any length", aims to reclaim the words of Canada's first prime minister and others who enacted laws to prevent Chinese immigrants from voting.