Uma Parameswaran

Uma Parameswaran was born in Madras and grew up in Jabalpur, where her father was a Professor of Physics. She went to college in Nagpur, where she got a bachelor's and master's degree in English. She was a Fulbright Scholar and received an M.A. in Creative Writing (Indiana University) and a Ph.D. in English (Michigan State University, 1972). She has lived in Winnipeg, Canada since 1966. She is married to a mathematician and has one daughter. She is currently a Professor of English at the University of Winnipeg. Her areas of research are English Romantics, Post Colonial Literatures, Women's Literature, and South Asian Canadian Literature.


Uma Parameswaran has her own web page, and can be reached at parmswrn@io.uwinnipeg.ca

Bibliography



Fighter Pilots Never Die
Larkuma Press, 2006

Sawnet Review by Srividya Natarajan

The Forever Banyan Tree
Larkuma Press, 2006

Sawnet Review by Shanti Menon

Sisters at the Well
Indialog, 2002.

Trishanku
Toronto South Asian Review, 1988.



Mangoes on the Maple Tree
Broken Jaw Press, Canada.

Sawnet Review by Nalini Iyer

The Sweet Smell of Mother's Milk-Wet Bodice


What was always hers


Cyclic Hope, Cyclic Pain
Writers Workshop, Calcutta, 1972.

Trishanku
TSAR, Toronto, 1988.

Rootless but green are the Boulevard Trees
1989.

The door I shut behind me: selected fiction, poetry and drama.
Affiliated East-West Press (P) Ltd., New Delhi. 1990

SACLIT: An Introduction to South Asian Canadian Literature
East West Books, Madras, 1996.

SACLIT Drama: Plays by South Asian Canadians
IBH Prakashana, Bangalore, 1996.

Sons Must Die and Other Plays
Prestige Books, New Delhi, 1998.

Books edited by Uma Parameswaran

At the Gates
Larkuma Press larkuma2003@yahoo.com. 2004.

A collection of stories by 6 students in a creative writing course, as well as one by their teacher and editor, Uma Parameswaran. The stories are about death, darkness, drugs, violence and idealism. "...each of these remarkable characters stands at the gate between this world and the next..."

Quilting a New Canon: Stitching Women's Words
Sister Vision Press, Toronto. 1996.

South Asian Women authors
Sawnet Bookshelf
Sawnet