Priscila Uppal

Priscila Uppal (born 1974 Ottawa) is a Canadian poet and novelist. She graduated from Hillcrest High School in 1993. She teaches literature and creative writing at York University in Toronto.^[1] She is one of three Canadian writers on the 2007 shortlist for the Griffin Poetry Prize.^[2]

Contents 1 Bibliography 1.1 Poetry 1.2 Fiction 1.3 Anthologies – as editor 1.4 Anthologies – as contributor 1.5 Non-Fiction 2 References 3 External links

Bibliography

Poetry

• How to Draw Blood From a Stone. Exile Editions, Ltd.. 1998. ISBN 9781550962307. http://books.google.com/books?id=Qr3yzAhqGDgC&printsec=frontcover&dq=priscila+uppal&hl=en&ei=_wcwTtyrDIT40gHTqbWvAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false. 
• Confessions of a Fertility Expert. Exile Editions, Ltd.. 1999. ISBN 9781550965506. http://books.google.com/books?id=vI01KEsTn0UC&printsec=frontcover&dq=priscila+uppal&hl=en&ei=_wcwTtyrDIT40gHTqbWvAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CEAQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q&f=false. 
• Pretending to Die. Exile Editions, Ltd.. 2001. ISBN 9781550965193. http://books.google.com/books?id=YfT33BgzMd0C&printsec=frontcover&dq=priscila+uppal&hl=en&ei=_wcwTtyrDIT40gHTqbWvAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CDsQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q&f=false. 
• Live Coverage. Exile Editions, Ltd.. 2003. ISBN 9781550965711. http://books.google.com/books?id=lLdx1PX5ruMC&printsec=frontcover&dq=priscila+uppal&hl=en&ei=_wcwTtyrDIT40gHTqbWvAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CEoQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q&f=false. 
• Cover Before Striking, Lyricalmyrical Press, 2004, ISBN 9780973658842
• Holocaust Dream, MacLaren Arts Centre, 2005, ISBN 9780969355595 (photographs by Daniel Ehrenworth)
• Ontological Necessities. Exile Editions, Ltd.. 2006. ISBN 9781550960457. http://books.google.com/books?id=Q-jDGq9utcQC&printsec=frontcover&dq=priscila+uppal&hl=en&ei=_wcwTtyrDIT40gHTqbWvAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CEUQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q&f=false.  (shortlisted for the 2007 Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize)
• Traumatology, Exile Editions, 2010, ISBN 9781550961393
• Winter Sport: Poems, Mansfield Press, 2010, ISBN 9781894469494
• Successful Tragedies, Bloodaxe Books, 2010, ISBN 9781852248604

Fiction

• The Divine Economy of Salvation, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2002, ISBN 9781565123656; Doubleday Canada, 2003, ISBN 9780385658058
• To Whom It May Concern, Doubleday Canada, 2009, ISBN 9780385659932

Anthologies – as editor

• The Exile Book of Canadian Sports Stories, Exile Editions, 2010, ISBN 9781550961256
• The Exile Book of Poetry in Translation: Twenty Canadian Poets Take on the World, Exile Editions, 2009, ISBN 9781550961225
• Barry Callaghan: Essays on his Works, Guernica, 2007, ISBN 9781550712537
• 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 9781894469166 (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

Non-Fiction

• We Are What We Mourn. McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. 2009. ISBN 9780773534568. http://books.google.com/books?id=Y27XaS20eXsC&printsec=frontcover&dq=priscila+uppal&hl=en&ei=_wcwTtyrDIT40gHTqbWvAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDYQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q&f=false. 

References

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

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