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Larissa Lai
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Larissa
Lai |
| Born: |
September 13, 1967
La Jolla, California, USA |
| Occupation: |
Writer, Professor |
| Nationality: |
Canadian |
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Biography
Larissa Lai is an American-born Canadian writer, critic, and professor.
Born in La Jolla, California, she grew up in St. John's, Newfoundland. She attended the University of British Columbia and, in 1990, graduated with a B.A. in Sociology. Subsequently, she earned her MA from the University of East Anglia, and her PhD from the University of Calgary (2006). She is currently an Assistant Professor in Canadian Literature in the English Department at the University of British Columbia. She is an active committee member of the reading series Play Chthonics at UBC's Green College. She also edited poetry for the journal Canadian Literature from 2007 to 2010. A Chinese-Canadian, she has been cited as an example of "the growing elasticity of Canadian fiction and Canadian identity".
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