The School of Creative Writing is pleased to congratulate Paul Dhillon, MFA. Paul’s graduate thesis is a multi-genre fiction collection entitled Floods Rise To Meet Us.
Paul Dhillon (he/him) is a second-generation Punjabi Canadian and his work has appeared the The Malahat Review and Prairie Fire. His work has been a finalist at the National Magazine Awards. He currently lives on the unceded and ancestral territory of the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh speaking peoples, the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. He is a high school English teacher.
Floods Rise To Meet Us is a collection of stories that follows Punjabi Canadian characters in Vancouver. Characters confront the constraints of their environments, familial histories, and cultural expectations. New immigrants seek acceptance, a chef reckons with their lineage of taking, an artist creates a memorial and confronts her parents’ conditional love, a heartbroken boy understands faiths role in the ruins of tragedy, and brothers wrestle with the final rights concerning their parents’ ashes in a smoke-blanketed Vancouver. These stories investigate boundaries between self and other, striving to answer the question: Who am I?
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