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LITERARY
RÉSUMÉ

LARISSA C. DOUGLASS

LITERARY CV | September 2026
Ontario, Canada

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SELECTED LITERARY PUBLICATIONS

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BOOK-LENGTH & MAJOR PROJECTS

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  • Novels page.

  • Vampire Daddy. Serialized speculative novel set on Mars; publication in progress since December 2025. Current word count approximately 70,000 words (27 September 2026). Fifth book in a five-book mystical realist Dark Matter series.

  • Isis Chrysalis. Interconnected literary/speculative novel-in-stories organized across Past, Present, and Future; manuscript in advanced development. Current word count approximately 100,000 words (27 September 2026). First book in a five-book mystical realist Dark Matter series.

  • Ink of the Palimpsest. Interconnected fiction manuscript; several completed novellas and stories, with remaining material in development. Current word count approximately 135,000 words (27 September 2026). Second book in a five-book mystical realist Dark Matter series.

  • Narcissus Shrugged. Planned. Third book in a five-book mystical realist Dark Matter series.

  • Son of the Lost Kingdom. Planned. Fourth book in a five-book mystical realist Dark Matter series.

  • Glengarry Tales. Children’s literary series rooted in the ecology and imaginative landscape of Eastern Ontario; series in production, with two books written and the third book nearing completion. Mailing list. Pitch page (log in required).

  • The Millennial Book of Days. Experimental flash fiction project conceived as 365 self-contained pieces of one page or less, one miniature fiction for each day of the year; more than 140 pieces currently catalogued.

  • Dark Palace. Poetry chapbook. Winner, 2017 Kármán Liminality Chapbook Prize. Contracted for publication with Radiant Crown / Aurelia Leo / Olivia Raymond (aka Zelda Knight) Publisher. Publication was interrupted following restructuring and the eventual closure of the publisher during the COVID period. First volume in a poetry chapbook triptych.

  • Sparrows Still Sing in the Morning. Second volume in a poetry chapbook triptych. Work in progress, with individual pieces written and published online.

  • Growing Lemons in the Desert. Third volume in a poetry chapbook triptych. Work in progress.

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AWARDS & RECOGNITION

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SELECTED READINGS & LITERARY APPEARANCES

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  • More details on the News page.

  • Write Club. Discussion/review of Chapter 22 of Vampire Daddy, “You Could Be A Villain,” 5 August 2026.

  • The Write Thing. Reading of “Kingsmere Gate,” hosted by The Glengarry Artists’ Collective, Alexandria, Ontario, 15 October 2025.

  • Authors’ Vintage. Reading of “The Utraquist,” Stonehouse Vineyard, Ontario, 14 September 2025.

  • The Big Show. Presentation of “The Spring Story: The Keepers of the Dawn” and poem “Grail on the Ground,” 11–12 April 2025.

  • The Write Thing. Readings of “Cakes from the Garden,” “The Name That Flies Across the Earth,” and “The Red Room,” 30 October 2024.

  • The Big Show. Presentation of “The Winter Story: The Watchers of January,” 19–20 April 2024.

  • The Write Thing. Readings of children’s stories “Morris the Master Meshmaker” and “The Winter Story: The Watchers of January,” 21 February 2024.

  • The Write Thing. Readings of novella “Ascension” and flash fiction “Vampire Daddy,” 18 October 2023.

  • The Write Thing. Readings of “Dream of Flying” and “Ballast Tournament,” 28 June 2023.

  • The Write Thing. Readings of “The Oneiromancer” and “The Utraquist,” 15 February 2023.

  • The Write Thing. Readings of “The Kingdom of the Squirrels” and “The Utraquist,” 26 October 2022.

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SELECTED LITERARY DEVELOPMENT

 

  • DISQUIET International Literary Program. Lisbon, Portugal. Accepted, Spring 2024, for workshop on Ink of the Palimpsest with Novuyo Tshuma. Unable to attend due to financial constraints.

  • Bread Loaf Sicily. Middlebury College, Erice, Italy, Fall 2015. Workshop on Isis Chrysalis with Lynn Freed.

  • Summer Literary Seminar. Concordia University, Montreal, Spring 2014. Workshop on Isis Chrysalis with Josip Novakovich.

  • Yale Writers’ Conference. Yale University, Summer 2013. Master class with Kevin Wilson; workshop on Isis Chrysalis with Je Banach.

  • Writing with Style. The Banff Centre, Alberta, Spring 2011. Workshop on Isis Chryalis with Zsuzsi Gartner.

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INDEPENDENT WRITERS’ GROUP

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  • Co-Founder and facilitator, 2013–2026. Convened a small, long-running peer group of writers for regular discussion of goals, manuscript feedback, beta reading, and mutual critiques across fiction and other literary work. Participants have included Deborah Anne LeClair, Sandy Coppola, Rosemary Lorimer, and Patricia Crisafulli.

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SELECTED EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE

 

  • The Mars Society. Assistant Editor, 2009–2016.

  • Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press. Assistant Bibliographic Researcher, 2002.

  • Centre for Editing Early Canadian Texts (CEECT), Carleton University. Editorial & Research Assistant, 1995–1997.

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ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS

ARTICLES

 

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REVIEWS

 

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SELECTED OTHER WRITING & PUBLICATIONS

 

  • L.C. Douglass on Patreon. Author and independent publisher, 2020–2026. 83 articles published through Patreon or distributed directly to subscribers by email, plus 25 additional installments of the serialized novel Vampire Daddy.

  • The Dragonfly. Official blog of author L.C. Douglass, focused on art, literature, poetry, and writing, 2018–2026. 41 published articles and 74,597 all-time page views (as of 27 September 2026).

  • Histories of Things to Come. Long-form blog on technology, culture, and social change, 2010–2026. 1,900 published posts, 1 million+ words, and 7 million+ page views (as of 27 September 2026).

  • Vocal Media. Contributor, 2017–2021. 11 published articles on technology, culture, politics, and contemporary issues.

  • Captured Moments. Exhibition catalogue article for C. Dorosz’s Stasis, Scott Richards Contemporary Art Gallery, San Francisco, 2012.

  • INTUTE. More than 500 reviews of humanities academic websites, 2001–2010.

  • Women and Foreign Policy. Blogger, Foreign Policy Association, 2007–2009.

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EDUCATION

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  • University of Oxford. Doctoral research in Modern European History. D.Phil. examination result: Pass with Minor Corrections, 2013; corrections remain to be completed. Dissertation: “State, Society, and Political Identities: Czechs, Germans, and Jews in Habsburg Austria, 1895–1914” (100,000 words). Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Grant; St. Antony’s College Sassoon Scholarship; additional research grants and scholarships.

  • McMaster University. M.A., British History, 1999. Thesis: “Defining the Alien: Responses to Russo-Jewish Immigration and the Creation of Cultural and Political Identities in England and Canada, 1881–1907” (53,000 words). Ashbaugh Scholarship.

  • Carleton University. B.A., German Language and Literature, 1998. Dean’s Honour Roll. CAUTG work exchange, Munich, 1996. DAAD Scholarship for study of German Literature, University of Regensburg, 1997.

  • Queen’s University. B.A. (Hons.), History major, English Literature minor, 1993.

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