Louise Bak was born in Kingston, Ontario in 1972 and has lived in Toronto since 1991. She works actively as a writer, editor, radio broadcaster, performance artist and sexuality counsellor. Her writing has appeared in numerous magazines, journals and anthologies in North America. Her first book of poetry, emeighty, was published in a limited edition by Letters Bookshop in 1995. She is currently the guest art editor of the feminist culture magazine PlusZero. Aside from her literary (in)ventures, Louise can be heard every Tuesday morning as co-host of Sex City, Toronto's only morning program dedicated to ongoing cultural (s)excavation (CIUT-FM 89.5). Her performance work has appeared recently in the independent films Cheese (1995), Amidst Us (Total Eclipse Productions, 1996) and The Wall (1997). She is co-originator of SLANT, Canada's first television magazine to explore Canadian-Asian art and culture, now in development. She is also completing her graduate work on the transperformative aspects of Cantonese opera in Canada at the University of Toronto.
Louise Bak is a Toronto-based poet, performance artist, radio host, sexual activist and scholar. She is the author of Tulpa (Coach House Books, 2002), Gingko Kitchen (Coach House Books, 1997) and emeighty (Letters, 1995). Louise has gained widespread attention as the co-host of Sex City, Toronto's only radio show focused on intersections between sexuality and culture. Her performance work has appeared in numerous galleries, festivals and video collaborations. She also hosts a salon series called The Box, which encourages communication creative borders. She is currently a doctoral student at the University of Toronto in SESE and Women's Studies.
Louise Bak at Online Guide to Writing in Canada
Louise Bak at University of Toronto Centre for Media and Culture in Education (CMCE)
Louise Bak "How to Get Beautiful in the Anticosm: Four Steps to Decay (life)Style!" at brokenpencil
Louise Bak at SCREAM in High Park
Louise Bak "Transforming Spaces - Girlhood, Agency and Power"
Louise Bak Partial Selves documentary film about her life at Zonker Films
Louise Bak Partial Selves documentary film about her life at Reel Asian
Louise Bak poetry at Nth Position Online Magazine
Louise Bak at TRADE Queer Things
more Louise Bak at TRADE Queer Things
Louise Bak at symposium on the Liberation of Chinese Women Since Footbinding
Louise Bak in Swallowing Clouds : An Anthology of Chinese-Canadian Poetry
Louise Bak at Interdimensional
Louise Bak at CRASH Number 8 Autumn 1997
Louise Bak at MachineSexActionGroup
Louise Bak's Gingko Kitchen online
Louise Bak with friend Philip Monk