Writing Creative Writing: Essays from the Field - Rishma Dunlop, Daniel Scott Tysdal, Priscila Uppal 2016

Editor biographies

Rishma Dunlop published five books of poetry: Lover Through Departure, White Album, Metropolis, Reading Like a Girl, and The Body of My Garden. CBC Radio produced her radio drama, The Raj Kumari’s Lullaby, about an immigrant daughter’s coming of age in Quebec. She won the Emily Dickinson Prize for Poetry and has been a finalist for the CBC Poetry Prize and Non-Fiction Prize. Her publications as editor are Red Silk: An Anthology of South Asian Canadian Women Poets; White Ink: Poems on Mothers and Motherhood; and Art, Literature and Place: An Ecopoetics Reader. In 2009 she was awarded the Canada-U.S. Fulbright Research Chair in Creative Writing, and in 2011 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Dunlop was professor of English and education at York University, Toronto. She was coordinator of the creative writing program from 2007 to 2011. Further information can be found at rishmadunlop.com.

Daniel Scott Tysdal is the author of three books of poetry: Fauxccasional Poems (Goose Lane, 2015), The Mourner’s Book of Albums (Tightrope, 2010), and Predicting the Next Big Advertising Breakthrough Using a Potentially Dangerous Method (Coteau, 2006). Predicting received the ReLit Award for Poetry (2007) and the Anne Szumigalski Poetry Award (2006). His poetry textbook, The Writing Moment: A Practical Guide to Creating Poems (2014), was published by Oxford University Press. He currently teaches creative writing and English literature at the University of Toronto Scarborough.

Priscila Uppal is an internationally acclaimed poet, a fiction writer, memoirist, essayist, playwright, and a professor of English at York University, where for nearly a decade she was coordinator of the creative writing program. Among her publications are ten collections of poetry, including Sabotage (2015), Ontological Necessities (2006; shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize), Traumatology (2010), Successful Tragedies: Poems 1998—2010 (Bloodaxe Books, U.K.), Winter Sport: Poems, and Summer Sport: Poems; the critically acclaimed novels The Divine Economy of Salvation (2002) and To Whom It May Concern (2009); and the study We Are What We Mourn: The Contemporary English-Canadian Elegy (2009). 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 as well as the Rogers Cup Tennis Tournament in 2011. Her first play, 6 Essential Questions, had its world premiere as part of the Factory Theatre 2013—14 season and was published by Playwrights Canada Press in 2015. Her memoir, Projection: Encounters with My Runaway Mother (2013), was a finalist for the Hilary Weston Writer’s Trust Prize for non-fiction and the Governor General’s Award for non-fiction. She has edited numerous anthologies, including Barry Callaghan: Essays on His Works, Best Canadian Poetry, The Exile Book of Canadian Sports Stories, The Exile Book of Poetry in Translation, and Red Silk: An Anthology of South-Asian Canadian Women Poets. Time Out London dubbed her “Canada’s coolest poet.” For more information visit priscilauppal.ca.

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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Writing creative writing : essays from the field / Rishma Dunlop, Daniel

Scott Tysdal, Priscila Uppal, editors.

Includes bibliographical references.

Issued in print and electronic formats.

ISBN 978-1-4597-4169-0 (softcover).--ISBN 978-1-4597-4170-6 (PDF).--

ISBN 978-1-4597-4171-3 (EPUB)

1. Creative writing. 2. Authorship. I. Dunlop, Rishma, 1956-2016, editor

II. Tysdal, Daniel Scott, 1978-, editor III. Uppal, Priscila, editor

PN145.W77 2018 808.02 C2017-907344-3

C2017-907345-1

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