Book launch for Nila Gupta's The Sherpa & Other Fictions

Book launch for Nila Gupta's The Sherpa & Other Fictions at the Victory Cafe, 581 Markham Street, Toronto, on Monday, March 31 at 7:30 p.m. The launch will feature readings, dance performance by Sanskriti Arts (original dance piece based on "The Sherpa"), Indian snacks and specially priced books for sale.

Nila Gupta was born in Montreal and spent several childhood years in India before immigrating back to Canada in 1967. In 2004 she won the Ontario Arts Council K.M. Hunter Award for Literature. She currently teaches and is enrolled in the M.F.A. in Creative Writing Program at the University of Guelph-Humber. Poet, playwright and scholar, Gupta has had work published in numerous journals and anthologies; The Sherpa and Other Fictions is her first short story collection.