We: Asian Canadian Literary Production in the 1980s and 1990s, with Wilfrid Laurier University Press), which discusses the movement's context of activism, Canada's ethnic minority history, and writers such as Evelyn Lau and Wayson Choy. An out lesbian, she was one of the 1997 panelists at Write Out West, one of Canada's first-ever full-scale conferences of LGBT writers. Her 2018 novel The Tiger Flu won the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction at the 31st Lambda Literary Awards, and was also nominated for 2019 Otherwise Award and Sunburst Award. The audiobook, released in May 2020 by ECW Press, was produced by Bespeak Audio Editions for an international audience and narrated by Canadian actor Lisa Truong. Bibliography Novels Books of poetry Chapbooks and short stories "New Reeboks" (1994) "The Home Body" (1994) "Water, and other Measures of Distance" (1996) "The Voice of the Blind Concubine" (1996) "The Peacock Hen" (1996) "April’s New Apartment" (1997) "S" (1998) "Pomegranate Tree" (2000) "Fish Bones" (2000) "Nu Wa" (2001) "The Combing" (2004) Rachel (2004) – "I Love Liver: A Romance" (2005) Eggs in the Basement (2009) Nomados Nascent Fashion (2004) "The Starfish's Groom" (2010) "What the Wyliei Wanted" (2014) Non-fiction Slanting I, Imagining We: Asian Canadian Literary Production in the 1980s and 1990s (2014) Waterloo, Ont.: Wilfrid Laurier University Press. . Themes and Subjects Lai's work explores intersections of identity in relation to race, culture, gender, and sexuality. In Lai's novels, she draws inspiration from Chinese mythology and culture with a particular focus upon historical and mythological female figures; these historical, cultural, and mythical connections are integrated within a feminist science fiction framework in the novel Salt Fish Girl. Complex romantic and sexual relationships between Asian women are a recurring subject within Lai's work and serve as the main focal point for her novels. In an interview with Canadian Women in the Literary Arts, Lai discussed her book Slanting I, Imagining We within the context of being involved within the creative and literary fields of Toronto in the 1990s. Lai said of her work during this time: "For me it was a time when questions of race, class, gender and sexuality were open to public debate in a broad and engaged ways. They still held their contentiousness, but productively so. Questions of history, movement, representation and justice were all available for interrogation. The work was not easy. The questions were personal and political and incredibly