
Dr. Sharanpal Ruprai (she/her) is an Associate Professor and is the Chair of the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Winnipeg. Dr. Ruprai is an internationally recognized writer, her début poetry collection, Seva was shortlisted for the Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry by the Alberta Literary Awards in 2015. Her second collection, Pressure Cooker Love Bomb, was shortlisted for the prestigious 2020 Annual Lambda Literary Awards, the Robert Kroetsch award for poetry, the Lansdowne Prize for Poetry and was the Goldie Finalist for Poetry. She served as the poetry editor for Contemporary Verse 2: The Canadian Journal of Poetry and Critical Writing (CV2). Dr. Ruprai was the 2019-2020 Canadian Writer-in-residence at the University of Calgary.