Prageeta Sharma is the author of five poetry collections, most recently Grief Sequence, a narrative reflection on grief over the loss of a loved one; Undergloom; and Infamous Landscapes. She is the founder of the conference Thinking Its Presence: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Race, Creative Writing, and Artistic and Aesthetic Practices. A recipient of the 2010 Howard Foundation Award and a finalist for the Poetry Society of America’s 2020 Four Quartets Prize, she has taught at The New School for Social Research, Goddard College, the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and the University of Montana, and is now the Henry G. Lee ’37 professor of English at Pomona College.