Larissa Diakiw is a writer and artist currently living and working in Tkoronto (Toronto). She grew up in Treaty 6 Territory in amiskwacîwâskahikan (Edmonton) and the lower Kootenays, but spent formative years in Tiohtià:ke (Montreal) where she did an honours BA in Creative Writing/English Lit at Concordia University while editing and publishing zines as a member of the LIP collective.
She has been published in Brick, Hazlitt, the Walrus, Joyland, Guts Magazine, and other places. She won a National Magazine Award for her essay Secrets Are a Captive Country. Her work has been anthologized in Articness and Best Canadian Essays 2020, 2019, and 2017. Her essay Mirrorland was an honourable mention in Best American Essays 2017.
She writes and illustrates non-fiction comics as Frankie NoOne, and is currently finishing a genre-bending graphic novel that explores the history, politics, and lyricism of how we live through time, along with a forthcoming collection of essays.
