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Priscila Uppal is a Toronto poet, fiction and non-fiction writer, and academic born in Ottawa in 1974. Among her publications are seven collections of poetry: How to Draw Blood From a Stone (1998), Confessions of a Fertility Expert (1999) Pretending to Die (2001) Live Coverage (2003) Ontological Necessities (2006), Traumatology (2010), and Successful Tragedies: Selected Poems 1998-2010 (Bloodaxe Books, U.K.); the critically-acclaimed novels The Divine Economy of Salvation (2002) and To Whom It May Concern (2009); both with Doubleday Canada; and the academic study, We Are What We Mourn: The Contemporary English-Canadian Elegy (2009) with McGill-Queen's University Press. Her work has been published internationally and has been translated into Croatian, Dutch, Greek, Korean, Latvian, and Italian. Ontological Necessities was short-listed for the prestigious $50,000 Griffin Prize for Excellence in Poetry. She is a professor of English at York University in Toronto. As editor, she has also published several books, most recently The Exile Book of Poetry in Translation: Twenty Canadian Poets Take On the World, and The Exile Book of Sports Stories. She is an active participant in several arts committees and organizations, and is on the Board of Directors at the Toronto Arts Council.

For more information please visit priscilauppal.ca