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Preeti’s debut poetry collection.

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PREETI’S PUBLICATIONS

For an up-to-date CV of Preeti’s publications & literary work, please contact her.

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  • Illustration of two people holding hands outdoors with laundry hanging on a clothesline, set against a bright sky with clouds.

    "Unrepeat" (poetry)

    See publication — Augur Magazine

  • A person walking on a grassy hill overlooking a city at sunset, with the title 'The Humber Literary Review' in the top right corner - poetry by Preeti Kaur Dhaliwal

    "The Physiology of Home" & "Ephemerals" (poetry)

    Read here — Humber Literary Review

  • A magazine cover titled 'The New Quarterly: Canadian Writers & Writing' with a purple background and an abstract illustration of a dark sky with red roses, yellow streaks, and a setting sun.

    "A Picnic with Aunties" (short story)

    See publication — The New Quarterly (Issue 161)

  • A person sitting on the ground near a tree, holding a small flower in their hand. The background has a cloudy sky, and a small unicorn sculpture is nearby. The text on the image reads 'ti-TCR 20' and 'a web folio,' with a label 'on collective care' at the bottom left.

    “Almost an art poetica,” “Making a Bowl for Sweetness,” “More Lovingness,” (poetry)

    Read here — Ti-TCR On Collective Care (The Capilano Review)

  • A humanoid figure with a bird's head, wearing a black hat, a long pink and beige coat, gloves, and boots, holding a smoking cigarette holder in its right hand.

    "squash & transmissible thoughts" (nonfiction)

    Read here - tbd: A Mixed-Mode Response to COVID-19, ed. Kyo Maclear

  • Three young girls walking through a grassy field with trees and hills in the background. One girl is wearing a red headscarf and glasses, another girl is carrying a coat on her shoulders, and the third girl is standing further back.

    "This is jurisprudence: we are the ones we’ve been waiting for" (poetry)

    Read here — Alt Theatre Magazine, issue 14.1  


  • Text on a light purple background that reads 'bitter-skinned with okra'

    "Bitter-Skinned with Okra" (poetry)

    Read or listen here — HELD Magazine

  • "Cut to Exist" (poetry)

    Read here - Ex-Puritan

  • A stylized illustration of a flower with orange and red petals, with pink and white dripping paint on the petals, against a yellow background. The image includes a white box with the text 'PRISM international' and a quote 'BAD' SPRING 2018.

    "Body/Home” (nonfiction)

    Read here — Prism International, issue 56.3

  • A woman wearing a saree is blindfolded and holding a walker, participating in a research study at a theatre research center in Canada. A researcher is standing beside her, touching her arm.

    "Re-embodying Jurisprudence: Performance Art" (nonfiction/essay)

    Read here — Theatre Research in Canada (TRIC), issue on Race and Performance in the US-Canada Borderlands

  • A black and white illustration of a crocodile holding an umbrella, wearing a hat and patterned clothing, walking on a beach with a landscape in the background.

    "On Survival and Exhalation" (poetry)

    See publication — The Fiddlehead: BIPOC Solidarities, No. 290 Winter

  • The logo for 'grain,' a journal of eclectic writing, with the word 'grain' in large, bold, orange letters and the tagline 'the journal of eclectic writing' underneath in smaller orange font.

    "Gorgeous unknown, you fiction me" (poetry)

    See publication or read here - Grain Magazine

  • A woman with closed eyes smiling and holding a dark-colored book titled "We Were Not Alone" with an illustration of an angelic figure with wings.

    “Lullabied Fractions”

    We Were Not Alone: a Community Building Art Works Anthology, ed. Hari Alluri & Seema Reza, intro by Jewel (2020)

  • Logo with the text "poets.ca" and "League of Canadian Poets" inside a circle.

    "When a mortal couldn’t do it, I found a god who could" (poetry)

    Read here - Poetry Pause

  • The image features the lowercase letters "t" and "q" with a capital "n" in the middle, arranged in a stylized logo design.

    "Preeti Kaur Dhaliwal’s Writing Space" (nonfiction)

    Read here - TNQ Blog

  • Close-up of a book cover titled 'Loose Leaf,' with subtitle 'Volume 3 Summer 2018,' featuring abstract, layered, textured green and yellow patterns.

    "Waking up Desperate for Your Mother Tongue"

    Read here or watch & listen here - Looseleaf Magazine (nonfiction)

  • Magenta flower petals scattered on cement, 5X poetry by Preeti Dhaliwal / Preeti Kaur Dhaliwal

    "As History Presses" (poetry)

    Read here - 5X

  • Image of Festival of Literary Diversity Program, Preeti Kaur Dhaliwal's nonfiction essay

    “Love Doesn’t Trump Hate. Empathy, Education and Care Trump Hate.”

    Read here - Festival of Literary Diversity (FOLD) Program

Select Academic Publications

  • A digitally stylized portrait of a person wearing dark sunglasses and a hood, with a quote about disembodiment and terrorism from Ta-Nehisi Coates' book 'Between the World and Me', displayed in red text above and below the portrait.

    "Re-embodying Jurisprudence: Using Theatre and Multimedia 2017 Arts-based Methods to Support Critical Thinking, Feeling and Transformation in Law" (thesis)

    Read here — UVicSpace (01 May 2015). Peer-reviewed thesis.

  • Black and white logo of 'Times Colonsit' with a decorative crest between the words.

    Apologies and the Komagata Maru (op-ed)

    Read here — Times Colonist.

  • Cover of NoFo review by Alison Young, featuring colorful building facade and blue street art on a brick wall.

    "Book Review: Alison Young: Street Art, Public City. Law, Crime and the Urban Imagination."

    Read here - NO FOUNDATIONS: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Law and Justice

  • A woman wearing a traditional sari blindfolded and holding a cane, is being guided by another woman in an indoor setting. The scene appears to be part of a research or educational activity related to theatrical research in Canada.

    "Re-embodying Jurisprudence: Performance Art" (creative essay)

    Read here & watch live footage of the performance art here — Theatre Research in Canada (TRIC), issue on Race and Performance in the US-Canada Borderlands

Creative & Academic Publications by Genre

  • Cosmic Mundane Mantra Human, Brick Books - 2027 (forthcoming)

  • Cosmic Mundane Mantra Human, poetry collection, Brick Books (forthcoming) - 2027

    “Haptic Mirror,”The New Quarterly (2026)

    “Unrepeat: an incantation,”Augur Magazine (2025)

    “Gorgeous unknown, you fiction me,”Grain Magazine, pdf (2025)

    “Cut to Exist,” The Ex-Puritan, online (2024)

    “When a mortal couldn’t do it, I found a god who could,”Poetry Pause, online (2024)

    “Almost an art poetica,” “Making a Bowl for Sweetness,” “More Lovingness,” 3 poems, Ti-TCR On Collective Care of The Capilano Review, online (2024)

    “SEVA,”ARC Poetry, No. 103, Spring (2024)

    “the physiology of home” and “Ephemerals,”Humber Literary Review (2023)

    “She disarms me: a deconstructed pantoum,”Canadian Notes & Queries, No. 112 Fall 22/Winter 23 (2022)

    “On Survival and Exhalation,”The Fiddlehead: BIPOC Solidarities, No. 290 Winter (2022)

    “bitter-skinned with okra,”HELD Magazine, online (2022)

    “Lullabied Fractions,”We Were Not Alone: a Community Building Art Works Anthology, edited by Hari Alluri & Seema Reza with an introduction by Jewel (2020)

    “This is jurisprudence: we are the ones we’ve been waiting for,”Alt Theatre Magazine, issue 14.1, pdf (2017) 

  • “Preeti Kaur Dhaliwal’s Writing Space,” TNQ Blog, online (2021)

    “squash & transmissible thoughts,”tbd: A Mixed-Mode Response to COVID-19, ed. Kyo Maclear, online (2020) ‍

    “Love Doesn’t Trump Hate. Empathy, Education and Care Trump Hate,” FOLD 2017 Literary Festival Program, Toronto, online (2017)

    “Re-embodying Jurisprudence: Performance Art,”Theatre Research in Canada (TRIC), issue on Race and Performance in the US-Canada Borderlands (2018)

    “Waking up Desperate for Your Mother Tongue,”Looseleaf Magazine, vol 5 (2018)

    “Body/Home,” in BAD, Prism International, issue 56.3 (2017)

    ‍“The Performativity of Evidence: Oral History Testimony & Aboriginal Land Claims,”alt theatre 10 (2013)

  • “A Picnic with Aunties,”The New Quarterly, Issue 161 (2022)

  • “Alison Young: Street Art, Public City. Law, Crime and the Urban Imagination,” No Foundations,
    Interdisciplinary journal on law and justice, no 13, online (2016)

  • “Re-embodying Jurisprudence: Using Theatre and Multimedia 2017 Arts-based Methods to Support Critical Thinking, Feeling and Transformation in Law,” UVicSpace. Peer-reviewed thesis, online (2017)

    “Apologies and the Komagata Maru,”‍ ‍Times Colonist, op-ed, online (24 May 2016)

    “McGill Law, Un Vehicule pour le Changement Social ou Pour la Promotion des ‘Corporate Interests,” Dhaliwal, Preeti & Garrett Zehr, Quid Novi article, McGill Law Weekly Newspaper, 33:20 (2012)

    “Private Property in the Canadian Classroom”Quid Novi article, McGill Law Weekly Newspaper, 32:19 (2011)

    “Gay Civil Rights and Science: A Tug of War,” Essay inUBC Political Science Undergraduate Journal (2008)

    “Bagan, Myanmar,” Photo/Cover, UBC Journal of International Affairs, Vancouver, BC (2008)

INTERVIEWS & MEDIA

    • About Preeti's creative writing workshops with McGill law students - 2022

    • Preeti's FIDDLEHEAD interview with Shauna Deathe - 2022

    • “A Queer Love Story,” the 1st Place Story at the Toronto International Festival of Authors’ LitJam Competition - 2019

    • An article about a playreading that Adele Noronha organized where Preeti had her directing debut (by Charlie Smith, Pancouver) - 2022

    • Preeti’s op-ed in the Times Colonist:  “Apologies and the Komagata Maru” - 2016

    • To Preeti’s interview on North by Northwest (CBC) - 2025 

    • To Preeti chat with Stephen Quinn about being Upstart & Crow's poet-in-residence - 2025 

    • To a podcast where Preeti chats with Noor Kidwai - 2020

    • To Preeti & Khari Wendell McClelland on the Early Edition about Indian Summer Festival's Artist Roundtable (CBC) - 2024

  • A middle-aged man with glasses, wearing a dark checkered suit and blue shirt, resting his chin on his clasped hands in front of a light blue background.

    Upstart & Crow Poet in Residence: The Early Edition with Stephen Quinn

    Listen here— CBC Listen

  • Black and white photo of a woman crouching on the ground with a dark background, light illuminating her face and body.

    Creative writing workshops with McGill law students

    Read more — News from McGill’s Faculty of Law

  • Colorful logo with a large, three-dimensional letter P in teal, inside a yellow-outlined red and orange geometric shape, with the words 'PAN COUVER' in teal text to the right and below.

    Monsoon Festival's Adele Noronha on the complexity of South Asian identity

    Read more — Pancouver

  • Photograph of Preeti Kaur Dhaliwal posing indoors, with her left hand resting on her head and gazing to the side, wearing a black top and gold earrings.

    FIDDLEHEAD interview with Shauna Deathe

    Read more — Fiddlehead

  • A cartoon head with a smiling face and closed eyes, making a hand gesture, with the text "GOD YAY OR NAY?" below.

    Podcast with Noor Kidwai

    Listen here - Spotify

  • People standing on stage during an event, with some clapping and smiling, while others are sitting at tables with drinks, and a large screen displaying text in the background.

    “A Queer Love Story,” 1st Place Story at the Toronto International Festival of Authors’ 2019 LitJam Competition

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