Teri Vlassopoulos is the author of Living Expenses (Invisible Publishing, 2025), Escape Plans (Invisible Publishing, 2015) and Bats or Swallows (Invisible Publishing, 2010).
Her fiction and non-fiction has been published in Room Magazine, Catapult, The Millions, The Rumpus, The Toast, Open Book and more. She has been nominated for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award.
In addition to writing, Teri sits on the Board of Directors of the FOLD (the Festival of Literary Diversity).
She lives in Toronto.
LIVING EXPENSES (May 2025)
ABOUT THE BOOK
As the children of a single mother who immigrated from the Philippines, Laura and Claire have always been exceptionally close. That is, until Claire moves to San Francisco for a startup job in Silicon Valley while Laura and her husband remain in Toronto and decide to start a family. Enter the slow, hopeful, devastating process of fertility treatments. While Laura prepares for IVF, Claire has her own encounter with the fertility industry.
Living Expenses interrogates the strain that can accompany even the strongest of relationships, and captures the inevitable creep of technology into all facets of its characters’ lives, from communication to reproduction.
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I always love it when you support your favourite local bookstores. Some of my favourites in Toronto are Queen Books or Type Books
Other Books and Writing
Escape Plans
Niko Kiriakos, tentative heir to the ailing Calypso Shipping fleet, always suspected he was cursed. Following his sudden disappearance, his wife, Anna, and daughter, Zoe, are left adrift. Unmoored, they begin to test the boundaries of their lives, struggling with issues of loyalty, identity and what it means to be a family. Spanning years and tracing a route from Niagara Falls to Greece, Escape Plans is an unblinking look at the ties that bind us together and the things that pull us apart.Bats or Swallows
The innocence and clarity of Teri Vlassopoulos’s narrative voice reveals new and unexpected layers. The characters in these stories look for signs and omens as they attempt to understand events in their lives by framing them in abstract superstitions. The stories in Bats and Swallows are sharp, accurate, told with balance and skill.Non-Fiction
I also frequently write non-fiction essays. A sample is linked below.“When I Think About Giving Up Writing” (Catapult)
“Why I Don’t Call My Child a Miracle” (Catapult) (Also published Through, Not Around: Stories of Infertility and Pregnancy Loss (Dundurn)
“Shift: On Richard Serra and Art as Therapy” (The Rumpus)
“What to Read When You’re Not Expecting” (The Millions)
“Messy” (Little Fiction)
GET IN TOUCH
I would love to hear from you. In addition to email (teri.vlassopoulos@gmail.com), you can subscribe to my newsletter for updates.
EVENTS AND PRESS
Official Toronto launch: Thurs May 15, 2025 - Queen Books
On tour with Lindsay Zier-Vogel:
Tues May 20 - Novel Spot - ETOBICOKE
Thurs May 22 - The City and The City Books - HAMILTON
Wed June 4 - Type Books (Queen W) - TORONTO
Thurs June 5 - Take Cover Books - PETERBOROUGH
Thurs June 12 - Little Wren Books - LONDON
Tues June 17 - Books & Company - PEC
Sat June 21 - The Book Wardrobe - MISSISSAUGA
Past events
“Vlassopoulos has found a way to carry over the wide-eyed curiosity and innate goodness of childhood into the mysterious, often sad, often tragic world of adulthood.”
Montreal Review of Books
"While ESCAPE PLANS has its basis in tragedy, it’s not without humour and even, sometimes, optimism of a sort. As is often the case in modern fiction, the plot is almost a backdrop to the discovery of how and why things came to be as they are. ESCAPE PLANS is a promising debut and hopefully the first of more to come"
Beach Metro