Larissa Andrusyshyn's first book Mammoth (DC Books 2010) was shortlisted for the QWF First Book Prize and the Kobzar Literary Award. Her poems have been shortlisted for Arc Magazine's Poem of the Year and the Malahat Review's Open Season Award. She works with a local non-profit to offer creative writing workshops to at-risk youth. She lives, writes and is planning her zombie apocalypse survival strategy in Montreal

Larissa Andrusyshyn s poetry has appeared in Headlight, Soliloquies, Versal and in the anthologies. Her work has also been shortlisted for the Arc Magazine poem of the Year in 2009. She presently co-ordinates writing workshops for at-risk youth and works at a veterinary hospital. A multi-celled, carbon-based life form, she lives and writes in Montreal.