Prathna Lor is a poet and scholar who teaches and writes on race, sex, ethics, and poetics. Prathna is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English at the University of Toronto and a 2019 graduate fellow at the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies. They are completing a dissertation on "unthinkable subjects," which was awarded the Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. 

Prathna's poetry and writing have appeared or is forthcoming in TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, Canadian Literature, the minnesota review, ​Jacket2, C Magazine, DIAGRAM, Black Warrior Review, Hobart, Vinyl, ​Haunt: A Journal of Art, Plenitude Magazine​, and elsewhere. Prathna is the author of two chapbooks, Ventriloquism (Future Tense Books, 2010) and, most recently, 7, 2 (Knife Fork Books, 2019).