An evocative novel that links the lives of a ninth-century poet/nun and a contemporary Asian-American woman.

Larissa Lai, born in La Jolla, California, is a writer, editor, organizer and student currently living in Calgary, Alberta. She was awarded an Astraea Foundation Emerging Writers Award in 1995 and her first novel When Fox Is A Thousand was shortlisted for the Chapters/ Books in Canada First Novel Award in 1996. In 1997-98, she was the Markin-Flanagan Canadian Writer-in-Residence at the University of Calgary. In 2001, she completed an MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England. She currently working on a PhD in English at the University of Calgary