Sharanpal Ruprai is a poet and an associate professor in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Winnipeg. Her debut poetry collection, Seva, was shortlisted for the S.G. Stephansson Award for Poetry. Ruprai’s second collection, Pressure Cooker Love Bomb, was shortlisted for a Lambda Literary Award, the Robert Kroetsch Award for Poetry, and the Lansdowne Prize for Poetry. She lives in Winnipeg.