Dharma Rasa

Kuldip Gill Kuldip Gill was born in Faridkot Dist., Punjab, India. She immigrated to Canada at age five and attended school in the Fraser Valley, British Columbia. Gill worked in the forestry and mining industries for twenty years then obtained her graduate degree in social anthropology from the University of British Columbia. She has taught at UBC, Simon Fraser University and at Open Learning Canada in Burnaby. She has studied Creative Writing (poetry and translation) at UBC, Langara College (Vancouver), the Banff School of Fine Arts, and Booming Ground Writers Community (1999) UBC. She also teaches a creative writing class (poetry) at the University College of the Fraser Valley. Her work has appeared in periodicals such as Event, BC Studies, Contemporary Verse 2, and AMSSA-Cultures West and in Colophon Books' Broadside series. She serves on the editorial board of Prism International, the boards of the Vancouver YWCA and the Vancouver Chief Constable's Diversity Advisory Committee and is past president of Immigrant and Visible Minority Women of BC. Dharma Rasa is her first book. Dharma Rasa