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Lisa Cai

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Website

https://lisacai.carrd.co/

Genre

Fantasy, Horror, Romance

Influences

Fumi Yoshinaga, Ursula K. Le Guin ...more

Member Since

January 2018

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Lisa Cai is from Toronto, Canada. She graduated from York University with an Honours BA in History and a Master of Library and Information Science from Western University.

She has been published in Diabolical Plots, The Dark Magazine, Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction, and others. She was shortlisted for the 2025 Brave New Weird award.

When not reading or writing, she is probably wrangling with IT systems at a university, watching anime, taking a long walk, or solving crimes in Among Us.

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Pretty Heroes Convention

I attended my first ever Pretty Heroes Convention. It’s a recent, local con that’s focused on women, girls, and femmes in media (especially anime and manga) and covers real life topics such as encouraging people to enter STEM and how to get into the voice acting industry. The panels were fun and educational.

Supporting local cons are great, since they’re smaller and less overwhelming than large one

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	Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction: Volume Three by Stephen Kotowych (Editor), Lisa Cai (Goodreads Author), R.H. Wesley (Goodreads Author) 4.57 avg rating — 14 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Over the Rainbow: Folk and Fairy Tales from the Margins (The Exile Book of Anthology Series) by Derek Newman-Stille (Editor), Kate Heartfield (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Lisa Cai (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.38 avg rating — 13 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Protest Diaries by Vanessa Cozza (Editor), Allene Nichols, Angela Teagardner really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2022 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Future Fire #51 by Djibril al-Ayad (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Saleha Chowdhury (Illustrator), Lisa Cai (Goodreads Author) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Incompatible by Lisa Cai (Goodreads Author), Danielle Putinja 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dark Magazine, Issue 89: October 2022 by Sean Wallace (Editor), Margot McGovern (Goodreads Author), Alison Littlewood liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2022	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In Early April by Lisa Cai (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator), Danielle Putinja (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Polar Starlight, Issue 8, January 2023 by Rhea E. Rose (Editor), Colleen Anderson (Contributor), Lisa Cai (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2023	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Lisa’s Quotes

“I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game.”
― Toni Morrison

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“This is precisely the time when artists go to work—not when everything is fine, but in times of dread. That’s our job!” Toni Morrison”
― Toni Morrison

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“The great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled by it in many ways, and history is literally present in all that we do.”
― James Baldwin, The Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction, 1948-1985

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