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. In 2007, her book of poetry Ontological Necessities was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize.

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

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