Larissa Lai
Larissa Lai’s 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. Her first full-length solo poetry book Automaton Biographies (Arsenal Pulp 2009) was shortlisted for the Dorothy Livesay Award. She is also the author of Eggs in the Basement (Nomados 2009), which was shortlisted for the bp nichol Chapbook Award; and sybil unrest (Line Books 2008), co-authored with Rita Wong. She is an English professor at the University of British Columbia.
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