Priscila Uppal

Priscila Uppal is a Canadian poet and fiction writer born in Ottawa and currently living in Toronto. Among her publications are five collections of poetry: How to Draw Blood From a Stone (1998), Confessions of a Fertility Expert (1999) Pretending to Die (2001) Live Coverage (2003) and Ontological Necessities (2006), all with Exile Editions; and the novel The Divine Economy of Salvation (2002), published to critical acclaim by Doubleday Canada and Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill and translated into Dutch and Greek. Her poetry has been translated into Korean, Croatian, Latvian, and Italian, and Ontological Necessities was short-listed for the prestigious $50,000 Griffin Prize for Excellence in Poetry. She has a PhD in English Literature and is a professor of Humanities and English at York University. Her second novel, To Whom It May Concern, will be released by Doubleday Canada in spring 2009. For more information please visit
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