Pasha Malla is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at York University. He is the author of seven books of poetry and fiction, most recently Kill the Mall, a novel, and an irregular contributor to the New Yorker and the Globe and Mail. His work has won the Trillium Book Award, the Hamilton Literary Prize, an Arthur Ellis Award and multiple National Magazine Awards. He has also been shortlisted for the Amazon Best First Novel Award and a Commonwealth Prize; longlisted for the Giller Prize and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and twice had stories in the Journey Prize anthology. He has taught at the University of Toronto, the University of Guelph, Brock University and McMaster University, where he was the 2021-22 Mabel Pugh-Taylor Writer-in-Residence, and he has mentored writers through PEN Canada, the Writers' Trust of Canada, the Banff Centre for the Arts and Creativity, and Diaspora Dialogues.

Research Interests

• Hamilton Literary Award -
• Danuta Gleed Literary Award -
• Trillium Book Award -
• Arthur Ellis Award for crime fiction -
• National Magazine Awards -

Current Courses

Upcoming Courses

Pasha Malla is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at York University. He is the author of seven books of poetry and fiction, most recently Kill the Mall, a novel, and an irregular contributor to the New Yorker and the Globe and Mail. His work has won the Trillium Book Award, the Hamilton Literary Prize, an Arthur Ellis Award and multiple National Magazine Awards. He has also been shortlisted for the Amazon Best First Novel Award and a Commonwealth Prize; longlisted for the Giller Prize and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and twice had stories in the Journey Prize anthology. He has taught at the University of Toronto, the University of Guelph, Brock University and McMaster University, where he was the 2021-22 Mabel Pugh-Taylor Writer-in-Residence, and he has mentored writers through PEN Canada, the Writers' Trust of Canada, the Banff Centre for the Arts and Creativity, and Diaspora Dialogues.

Degrees

Research Interests

Awards

• Hamilton Literary Award -
• Danuta Gleed Literary Award -
• Trillium Book Award -
• Arthur Ellis Award for crime fiction -
• National Magazine Awards -

Current Courses

Upcoming Courses