Larissa Lai
Assistant Professor of Canadian Literature, University of British Columbia; author and poet.
Last Contribution:
Ossuaries: Life Underground
Contributor Biography
Larissa Lai is an Assistant Professor in Canadian Literature at the University of British Columbia. Her first novel, When Fox is a Thousand (Press Gang 1995) was shortlisted for the Books in Canada First Novel Award. Her second novel, Salt Fish Girl (Thomas Allen Publishers 2002) was shortlisted for the Sunburst Award, the Tiptree Award, and the City of Calgary W. O. Mitchell Award. In 2009, she published a book-length collaborative long poem with Rita Wong called sybil unrest (Line Books) and a chapbook called Eggs in the Basement (Nomados). Her first full-length solo poetry book Automaton Biographies (Arsenal Pulp 2009) was nominated for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize.
