March 6, 2009, 6.30pm

Prakriti Foundation in association with Chamiers presents

Writing & Rewriting: Readings from Recent Fiction by Dr.Uma Parameswaran

Venue: 112, Chamiers Road, Nandanam, Chennai - 600 035

Uma Parameswaran was born in her grandfather’s house in Mylapore, Madras. She grew up in Nagpur and Jabalpur. She went to the United States on a Fulbright scholarship and took her M.A. in Creative Writing from Indiana University. She recently retired as Professor of English from the University of Winnipeg in Canada, so that she could devote more time to her writing. She won the Jubilee Award for the Best Collection of the Year (1999) for her what was Always Hers. Her poetry titles are: Cyclic Hope Cyclic Pain, Trishanku (1989), and Sisters at the Well (2002). Her fiction includes: Mangoes on the Maple Tree, The Forever Banyan Tree, Fighter Pilots Never Die and Riding High with Krishna and a Baseball Bat. She is currently engaged in writing a biography of C.V.Raman for Penguin India. She lives in Winnipeg, Canada with her husband who is a mathematician and Srivaishnavism scholar. They have a married daughter.