Evening Performance

Larissa Lai

Larissa Lai was born in La Jolla, California, grew up in St.John's, Newfoundland, and has lived and worked as an activist, organizer, editor and writer in Vancouver for many years. Her writing has appeared in numerous publications including Fuse, Rungh, Many-Mouthed Birds, absinthe, Filling Station, Room of One's Own and West Coast Line. In 1994, she was awarded an Astraea Foundation Emerging Writers Award on the basis of her novel When Fox Is a Thousand, in draft form. In 1995, When Fox Is a Thousand (Press Gang Publishers) was nominated for the Chapters/Books in Canada First Novel Award. She is currently the Canadian Writer-in-Residence with the Markin-Flanagan Distinguished Writers Programme at the University of Calgary. She is working on a second novel entitled Salt Fish.

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