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2014 Constance Rooke Creative Nonfiction Contest Judge:
Priscila Uppal
Priscila Uppal is a Toronto poet, fiction writer, memoirist, essayist, playwright, and a Professor of English at York University. Among her publications are nine collections of poetry, most recently, Ontological Necessities ($50,000 Griffin Poetry Prize shortlist), Traumatology (2010), Successful Tragedies: Poems 1998-2010 (Bloodaxe Books U.K.), and Summer Sport: Poems; the novels The Divine Economy of Salvation and To Whom It May Concern. Her work has been published internationally and translated into Croatian, Dutch, French, Greek, Italian, Korean and Latvian. She was the first-ever poet-in-residence for Canadian Athletes Now during the 2010 Vancouver and 2012 London Olympic and Paralympic Games. Her memoir, Projection: Encounters with My Runaway Mother (2013) was a finalist for the $60,000 Hilary Weston Writer’s Trust Prize for Non-Fiction and the $25,000 Governor General’s Award for Non-Fiction. Time Out London dubbed her “Canada’s coolest poet.”
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Constance Rooke Creative Nonfiction Prize
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