Priscila Uppal is a Canadian poet and fiction writer of South Asian descent. Born in Ottawa in 1974, she lives in Toronto. She is a professor of Humanities and English at York University in Toronto. Her latest collection, Sabotage (Bloodaxe Books, 2014), follows her first UK poetry selection Successful Tragedies: Poems 1998-2010 (Bloodaxe Books, 2010) which drew on six earlier collections of poetry published in Canada, including Ontological Necessities (2006), shortlisted for the prestigious $50,000 Griffin Prize for Excellence in Poetry. Her other books include the novels The Divine Economy of Salvation (2002) and To Whom It May Concern (2009), her critical study We Are What We Mourn: The Contemporary English-Canadian Elegy (2009), and her memoir, Projection: Encounters with My Runaway Mother (2013), nominated for both the Governor General's Literary Award and the Hilary Weston Prize for Non-Fiction (the largest prize for non-fiction in Canada).