Prageeta Sharma (born 1972) is an

American poet The poets listed below were either born in the United States or else published much of their poetry while living in that country. A B C D E F G H I–J K L M N O P Q *George Quasha (born 1942 in poetry, 1942) R ...

. She is the Henry G. Lee Professor of English at

Pomona College Pomona College ( ) is a private liberal arts college in Claremont, California. It was established in 1887 by a group of Congregationalists who wanted to recreate a "college of the New England type" in Southern California. In 1925, it became ...

Life

Sharma is the author of the

poetry collections A poetry collection is often a compilation of several poems by one poet to be published in a single volume or chapbook. A collection can include any number of poems, ranging from a few (e.g. the four long poems in T. S. Eliot's ''Four Quartets ...

''Grief Sequence'' (

Wave Books Wave Books (established 2005) is an American independent press focusing on the publication of poetry, with a focus on innovative, contemporary poetry and poetry in translation. This independent publisher has published books by CAConrad, Don Mee ...

, 2019), ''Undergloom'' (Fence Books, 2013), ''Infamous Landscapes'' (Fence Books, 2007), ''The Opening Question'' (Fence Books, 2004), which won the 2004 Fence Modern Poets Prize, and ''Bliss to Fill'' (Subpress, 2000). Sharma is the founder of the conference ''Thinking Its Presence: Race,

Creative Writing Creative writing is any writing that goes outside the bounds of normal professional, journalistic, academic, or technical forms of literature, typically identified by an emphasis on narrative craft, character development, and the use of literary ...

, Literary Studies and Art''. A recipient of the 2010 Howard Foundation Award, she has taught at the

University of Montana The University of Montana (UM) is a public research university in Missoula, Montana. UM is a flagship institution of the Montana University System and its second largest campus. UM reported 10,962 undergraduate and graduate students in the fal ...

and now teaches at

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