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| Name | Larissa Lai |
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| Location | Calgary, Alberta |
| Biography | Larissa Lai has authored three novels, The Tiger Flu, Salt Fish Girl and When Fox Is a Thousand; two poetry collections, sybil unrest (with Rita Wong) and Automaton Biographies; a chapbook, Eggs in the Basement; and a critical book, Slanting I, Imagining We: Asian Canadian Literary Production in the 1980s and 1990s. A recipient of the Astraea Foundation Emerging Writers' Award, she has been a finalist for the Books in Canada First Novel Award, the Tiptree Award, the Sunburst Award, the City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Award, the bpNichol Chapbook Award, the Dorothy Livesay Prize and the ACQL Gabrielle Roy Prize for Literary Criticism. Larissa was born in La Jolla, California and grew up in St. John's, Newfoundland. Through 1980s and1990s, she was a practicing writer and cultural organizer. In those years, she wrote her first novel, sat on the organizing committee for Writing Thru Race, worked as assistant curator for the contemporary media exhibit Yellow Peril: Reconsidered, worked as coordinator at SAW Video (Ottawa), and curated two shows at the grunt gallery in Vancouver. She also wrote a lot of reviews and essays for such publications as Kinesis: The Newspaper of the Vancouver Status of Women, and Fuse Magazine. She has been writer-in-residence at the University of Calgary, the University of Guelph and at Simon Fraser University, as well as guest professor at the University of Augsburg. At the University of British Columbia she served as Assistant Professor of Canadian Literature for seven years before relocating to the University of Calgary where she is currently Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair II in the Department of English. Here, she directs The Insurgent Architects' House for Creative Writing. |
| Publications | The Tiger Flu. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2018. Slanting I, Imagining We: Asian Canadian Literary Production in the 1980s and 1990s. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2014. Sybil Unrest. Vancouver: New Star Books, 2013. Automaton Biographies. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2009. When Fox Is a Thousand. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp, 2009. (Second Edition) Sybil Unrest. Burnaby: Line Books, 2008. (With Rita Wong) Salt Fish Girl. Toronto: Thomas Allen/Dundurn, 2002 When Fox Is a Thousand. Vancouver: Press Gang Publishers, 1995. |
| Awards | Winner: Astraea Foundation Emerging Writers' Award. Finalist: Books in Canada First Novel Award Tiptree Award Sunburst Award City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Award bpNichol Chapbook Award Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize ACQL Gabrielle Roy Prize for Literary Criticism |
| Experience | Canada Research Chair in Creative Writing, University of Calgary, 2014-present Associate Professor in Creative Writing, Department of English, University of Calgary 2014-present Assistant Professor in Canadian Literature, Department of English, University of British Columbia, 2007-2014 SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of English, University of British Columbia, 2006 Writer-in-Residence, University of Guelph, 2011 Writer-in-Residence, Simon Fraser University, 2006 Markin-Flanagan Writer-in-Residence, University of Calgary, 1997-98 |
| Memberships | Writers Union of Canada Canadian Creative Writers and Writing Programs |
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