Larissa Lai is the author of The Lost Century, The Tiger Flu, Salt Fish Girl, Iron Goddess of Mercy, and five other books, and is the recipient of the the Lambda Literary Award, the Astraea Award and other prizes. Involved in cultural organizing, experimental poetry and speculative fiction communities since the late 1980s, Larissa received the Jim Duggins Novelist’s Prize in 2020. She holds a Canada Research Chair at the University of Calgary, on Treaty 7 Territory, where she directs The Insurgent Architects’ House for Creative Writing.
