Larissa Lai is the author of The Lost Century; The Tiger Flu; Salt Fish Girl; Iron Goddess of Mercy; Slanting I, Imagining We: Asian Canadian Literary Production in the 1980s and 1990s; and four other books. Recipient of the Jim Duggins Novelist’s Prize, the Lambda Literary Award, the Astraea Award, and the Otherwise Honor Book and finalist for seven more, she holds a Canada Research Chair in Creative Writing at the University of Calgary and directs The Insurgent Architects’ House for Creative Writing there. She is currently a Maria Zambrano Fellow at the University of Huelva in Spain.
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