Larissa Lai is the author of the novels When Fox is a Thousand and Salt Fish Girl (Thomas Allen, 2002), Eggs in the Basement (Nomados, 2009), and co-author (with Rita Wong) of the poetry book sybil unrest (Line Books, 2009). Born in La Jolla, California, Lai grew up in St. John?s, NF, and currently lives in Vancouver.

"Part exoskeletal enjambment, part shared soft biology, Automaton Biographies wends through creative industries and uncommon commons, picking up the shards of both our latent futures and our Polaroid pasts.”-Mark Nowak, poet

The first poetry book by novelist Larissa Lai (When Fox is a Thousand) is a multilayered "autobiography” that puts an ear to the white noise of advertising, pop music, CNN, and biotechnology, exploring the problem of what it means to exist on the boundaries of "human.” Lai, who teaches English at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, is prominent within the women's, LGBT, and Asian American communities.