Griffin Poetry Prize Finalist Priscila
Uppal
Priscila Uppal was born in
Ottawa in 1974 and currently lives in Toronto where
she is a poet, fiction writer, academic, and
professor of Humanities and English at York
University. Her creative and academic interests
frequently intersect, and she has published work
that explores the tensions and dynamics between
women (particularly in closed societies: schools,
nunneries), the nature of human violence, sexuality
(including infertility), multicultural clashes
(ethnic, religious, geographical),revisionist
mythmaking (classical myth, biblical myth,
historical figures), illness (physical,
psychological, cultural), mourning rituals and the
expression of grief (towards individuals,
communities, abstract concepts), the world of
readers and the dangers and benefits of reading and
the imagination, as well as the nature of the
artistic process, among other things. 
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