Priscila Uppal

Priscila Uppal (born 1974 Ottawa) is a Canadian poet, novelist, and playwright. She graduated from Hillcrest High School in 1993, and currently teaches literature and creative writing at York University in Toronto.^[1] In 2007, her book of poetry Ontological Necessities was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize.^[2]

Bibliography

Poetry

• How to Draw Blood From a Stone. Exile Editions, Ltd. 1998. ISBN 978-1-55096-230-7.
• Confessions of a Fertility Expert. Exile Editions, Ltd. 1999. ISBN 978-1-55096-550-6.
• Pretending to Die. Exile Editions, Ltd. 2001. ISBN 978-1-55096-519-3.
• Live Coverage. Exile Editions, Ltd. 2003. ISBN 978-1-55096-571-1.
• Cover Before Striking, Lyricalmyrical Press, 2004, ISBN 978-0-9736588-4-2
• Holocaust Dream, MacLaren Arts Centre, 2005, ISBN 978-0-9693555-9-5 (photographs by Daniel Ehrenworth)
• Ontological Necessities. Exile Editions, Ltd. 2006. ISBN 978-1-55096-045-7. (shortlisted for the 2007 Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize)
• Traumatology, Exile Editions, 2010, ISBN 978-1-55096-139-3
• Winter Sport: Poems, Mansfield Press, 2010, ISBN 978-1-894469-49-4
• Successful Tragedies, Bloodaxe Books, 2010, ISBN 978-1-85224-860-4

Fiction

• The Divine Economy of Salvation, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2002, ISBN 978-1-56512-365-6; Doubleday Canada, 2003, ISBN 978-0-385-65805-8
• To Whom It May Concern, Doubleday Canada, 2009, ISBN 978-0-385-65993-2
• Cover Before Striking, Dundurn Press, 2015, ISBN 978-1-459-72952-0

Non-fiction

• We Are What We Mourn. McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. 2009. ISBN 978-0-7735-3456-8.
• Projection, Dundurn Press, 2013, ISBN 978-1-77102-274-3

Anthologies – as editor

• The Exile Book of Canadian Sports Stories, Exile Editions, 2010, ISBN 978-1-55096-125-6
• The Exile Book of Poetry in Translation: Twenty Canadian Poets Take on the World, Exile Editions, 2009, ISBN 978-1-55096-122-5
• Barry Callaghan: Essays on his Works, Guernica, 2007, ISBN 978-1-55071-253-7
• Uncommon Ground: A Celebration of Matt Cohen – 2002 (edited with Graeme Gibson, Wayne Grady, and Dennis Lee)
• Red Silk: An Anthology of South Asian Canadian Women Poets, Mansfield Press, 2004, ISBN 978-1-894469-16-6 (edited with Rishma Dunlop)

Anthologies – as contributor

• Alphabet City 11: Trash
• Body Language: A Head to Toe Anthology
• Certain Things About My Mother: Daughters Speak
• In the Dark: Stories from the Supernatural
• Larger Than Life
• Mentor's Canon: poems about / for / after writers
• New Canadian Poetry
• Writer's Gym

References

1. http://cwip.artmob.ca/contributors/priscilla-uppal
2. Griffin Poetry Prize biography

External links

• Griffin Poetry Prize reading, including video clip
• Personal website, with information about published books, readings, and professional academic work
• Poem Niagara Mermaids used with permission on the Niagara Falls Poetry Project website. Originally published in Pretending To Die