Mariam Pirbhai
Mariam Pirbhai is the author of a debut novel titled Isolated Incident (Mawenzi 2022) featured among CBC’s “65 Works of Fiction to Watch For in Fall 2022), winner of the 2023 Independent Publishers’ (IPPY) gold medal for Multicultural Fiction and silver medal for Regional Fiction/Eastern Canada; and a short story collection titled Outside People and Other Stories (Inanna 2017), winner of the IPPY and American BookFest Awards. Garden Inventories is her first book of creative nonfiction, ranked a 2023 Foreword Indies finalist for Nature/Nonfiction and receiving Honourable Mention for the 2024 Alanna Bondar Memorial Book Prize. Pirbhai is Professor of English at Wilfrid Laurier University, where she teaches and specializes in postcolonial studies and creative writing. She is also the author and editor of several academic books on the global South Asian diaspora, including Mythologies of Migration, Vocabularies of Indenture: Novels of the South Asian Diaspora in Africa, the Caribbean, and Asia-Pacific (University of Toronto Press 2009), and Critical Perspectives on Indo-Caribbean Women’s Literature (Routledge 2013). Pirbhai has served as President of CAPS (Canadian Association of Postcolonial Studies, formerly CACLALS), Canada’s longest-running scholarly association devoted to postcolonial and global anglophone literatures. Pirbhai is the daughter of Pakistani immigrants whose arrival in Canada followed a circuitous route from England, the United Arab Emirates and the Philippines. She and her husband live in Waterloo, Ontario.
Titles by Mariam pirbhai
Garden Inventories: Reflections on Land, Place and Belonging (2023)
