![]() She likes dogs, is afraid of cats, and feels at home in both Vancouver and Calgary. In 2014, she returned to the University of Calgary to take up a Canada Research Chair in Creative Writing. She was Assistant Professor in Canadian Literature at UBC from 2007-2014. From 2001-2006, she did a PhD in English at the University of Calgary. In 2001, she completed an MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. She has held writer-in-residence positions at the University of Calgary, Simon Fraser University and the University of Guelph. Her first publication was an essay about Asian Canadian contemporary media, published in the catalogue for the 1991 exhibition Yellow Peril: Reconsidered. Salt Fish Girl is the mesmerizing tale of an ageless female character who shifts shape and form through time and place. She spent the 1990s as a freelance writer and cultural organizer. Salt Fish Girl de Lai, Larissa en - ISBN 10: 0887623824 - ISBN 13: 9780887623820 - Thomas Allen Pub - 2012 - Tapa blanda. Larissa was born in La Jolla, California and grew up in St. Mitchell Award, the bpNichol Chapbook Award, the Dorothy Livesay Prize and the ACQL Gabrielle Roy Prize for Literary Criticism. 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. 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. ![]()
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