Larissa Lai won Lambda Literary's Jim Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelists' Prize in 2020. She is the author of three novels: Salt Fish Girl, When Fox Is a Thousand, and most recently, The Tiger Flu, which won a Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction, was named an Otherwise Honor Book, and was shortlisted for the City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Award. Her previous poetry books include Automaton Biographies. She holds a Canada Research Chair in Creative Writing at the University of Calgary where she directs the Insurgent Architects' House for Creative Writing.