Larissa Lai

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.