
Larissa Lai is a professor and the Richard Charles Lee Chair in Chinese Canadian Studies in the Canadian Studies Program at University College and the Department of English. She is the author of nine books including Slanting I, Imagining We: Asian Canadian Literary Production in the 1980s and 1990s, The Tiger Flu, Salt Fish Girl, Iron Goddess of Mercy and most recently The Lost Century.
Lai is a recipient of the Jim Duggins Novelist's Prize, the Lambda Literary Award, the Astraea Award, and the Otherwise Honor Book award and was twice a finalist for the City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Award. She has also been a finalist for the Books in Canada First Novel Award, the Sunburst Award, the bpNichol Chapbook Award, the Dorothy Livesay Prize, the ACQL Gabrielle Roy Prize for Literary Criticism and the Governor General's Award.