Priscila Uppal

Dr. Priscila Uppal is a Toronto poet, fiction writer and York University Professor. Among her publications are nine collections of poetry, most recently, Ontological Necessities (2006; shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize), Traumatology (2010), Successful Tragedies: Poems 1998-2010 (Bloodaxe Books, U.K.), and Winter Sport: Poems and Summer Sport: Poems; the critically-acclaimed novels The Divine Economy of Salvation (2002) and To Whom It May Concern (2009); the study We Are What We Mourn: The Contemporary English-Canadian Elegy (2009), and the memoir Projection: Encounters with My Runaway Mother (2013; shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Prize and the Governor General's Award). Her work has been published internationally and translated into Croatian, Dutch, French, Greek, Italian, Korean and Latvian. She was the first-ever poet-in-residence for Canadian Athletes Now during the 2010 Vancouver and 2012 London Olympic and Paralympic games as well as the Roger's Cup Tennis Tournament in 2011. Six Essential Questions, her first play, had its World Premiere as part of the Factory Theatre 2013-2014 season, and will be published by Playwrights Canada Press in 2015. Time Out London recently dubbed her ÒCanada's coolest poet.' For more information visit priscilauppal.ca

Books by Priscila Uppal

On Second Thought

Another Dysfunctional Cancer Poem Anthology

Writing Creative Writing

6 Essential Questions

Recipes for Dirty Laundry

Mycosis

At Your Service

Wind Chimes

Sleepwalking

The Man Who Loved Cats

The Lilies

The Still Body Is the Perfect Body

Three Days Left

Blind Spot

The Boy Next Door

Vertigo

Sabotage

Cover Before Striking

Projection

Summer Sport: Poems

Winter Sport

We Are What We Mourn

Barry Callaghan

Live Coverage

The Divine Economy of Salvation

Confessions of a Fertility Expert