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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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.

GET IN TOUCH

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EVENTS AND PRESS

Readings

  • Official Toronto launch, presented as part of Toronto Lit Up 2025: Thurs May 15, 2025 @ 6:30-8:30

  • On tour with Lindsay Zier-Vogel and THE FUN TIMES BRIGADE!

    • Tues May 20 @ 7 pm - Novel Spot (1500 Islington Ave) - ETOBICOKE (Bookstore event page)

    • Thurs May 22 @ 7 pm - The City and The City Books (181 Ottawa St N)- HAMILTON

    • Wed June 4 - Type Books (883 Queen St W) - TORONTO

    • Thurs June 5 @ 7 pm - Take Cover Books (59 Hunter St E) - PETERBOROUGH: Facebook event page, bookstore event page

    • Thurs June 12 @ 7 pm - Little Wren Books (502 Adelaide St N) - LONDON

    • Tues June 17 - Books & Company - PEC

    • Sat June 21 @ 10am-12 pm - The Book Wardrobe (223 Queen St. South) - MISSISSAUGA (part of The AUTHORity Chats: Cozy Conversations with authors, with Samantha Garner)

Other Events

  • Indie bookstore day @ Queen Books - Sat April 26 @ 3 pm

  • Introducing at The FOLD on Saturday May 3

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