Kuldip Gill

Kuldip Gill, award winning poet and author of Dharma Rasa (Nightwood Editions,1999), writes short fiction, non-fiction, and reviews of poetry and fiction. She also translates poetry from Punjabi to English. Kuldip received her MFA in Theatre, Film and Creative Writing (UBC,2004). She studied creative writing at Langara College (Vancouver), Banff School of Fine Arts, and Booming Ground Writers Community (1999) UBC. Her poetry has aired on CBC, and she was featured on CBC's North by Northwest, as well as on Co-op Radio in Vancouver. She has read in many libraries, colleges and community venues across Canada. Her work has appeared in periodicals such as Event, B.C. Studies, Contemporary Verse 2, The Toronto Review of Contemporary Writing Abroad, and in AMSSA-Cultures West. She has served on the editorial board of Prism International and is on the Advisory Council of Event. Her adjudications include: Poetry Judge: B.C. Book Awards 2001; Judge, Real Story Contest (Youth 12 - 24), YWCA 2000: Cancopy: Judge: Canada Book Day Essay Contest (Youth 12 - 19), 2002. She has taught at UBC, SFU, and at Open University, Burnaby, BC. Kuldip Gill was born in Faridkot Distt., Punjab, India. She attended school in Mission, BC in the Fraser Valley, where she now resides.

 

Awards

Dharma Rasa, The BC 2000 Book Award:Government of B.C.
Honorary Doctor of Letters (D.Litt, 2005), University College of the Fraser Valley, Abbotsford, B.C.
UBC: The Norman F. Rothstein Memorial Scholarship, September 2003, in recognition of Academic Achievement.
(Previous academic awards: UBC: IDRC Researchers Award 1985-86 for Doctoral Research in Fiji; University Fellowship (1986); 2 Year Health Canada Post-Doctoral Fellowship (Dept. of Medicine (Psychiatry) UBC (1990, 1991).

 

Selected Publications
Dharma Rasa (Nightwood Editions, 1999)
Kildeer's Dance (Colophon Books, 1999), limited edition broadside in The Poet's Series, illustrated by Jim Rimmer of Pie Tree Press.
Cornelian, Turquoise & Gold (Colophon Books 2003), Limited Edition Chapbook
Ghazals: Rai and Sohni (Froghollow Press 2003), Limited Edition Chapbook
Valley Sutra (Beach Holme Press, 2005), Forthcoming

 

Selected Anthologies
Isis Rising: The Goddess in the New Aeon, An Anthology of Poetry and Art (Temple of Isis, 2000)
Event: 30 Year Retrospective (Issue: Vol.31 (1), 2002)
Down in the Valley (Ekstatis, 2004)
Red Silk: An Anthology of South Asian Canadian Women Poets (Mansfield Press, Fall 2004)
In Fine Form: The Canadian Book of Form Poetry (Polestar, 2005)

 

 

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