by Larissa Lai
Larissa Lai
JULY 2004
For support and feedback on this Afterword, many thanks to: Hiromi Goto, Sharon Hayes, Blaine Kyllo, Brian Lam, Janet Neigh, and Rita Wong.
LARISSA LAI was born in La Jolla, California, grew up in Newfoundland, and lived and worked in Vancouver for many years as a writer, organizer, and editor. She has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England, and is currently working on a PhD at the University of Calgary. In 1995, she was the recipient of an Astraea Foundation Emerging Writer’s Award on the basis of When Fox Is a Thousand, originally published by Press Gang Publishers that same year. The novel was later nominated for the Chapters/Books in Canada First Novel Award. Her second novel, Salt Fish Girl (Thomas Allen Publishers, 2002) was shortlisted for the Sunburst Award, the Tiptree Award, and the City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Award. In 2003, TVO’S Imprint named her one the Top Ten Writers to Watch Under 40.