Priscila Uppal

Priscila Uppal (October 30 1974 – September 5, 2018) was a Canadian poet, novelist, and playwright. Born in Ottawa, Ontario, she graduated from Hillcrest High School in 1993, and taught 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] Her memoir Projection: Encounters with My Runaway Mother was shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction in 2013.[3] She was also the Olympic poet-in-residence at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Games and the 2012 London Summer Games.

Uppal died of synovial sarcoma.[4]

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. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-03-26. Retrieved 2011-07-27.
  2. ↑ Griffin Poetry Prize biography
  3. ↑ "Naomi Klein wins Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize". Quill and Quire. October 15, 2014. Retrieved September 5, 2018.
  4. ↑ "Priscila Uppal, Canadian poet, dead at 43". CBC Books. September 5, 2018. Retrieved September 5, 2018.
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