Prageeta Sharma is the author of six collections of poetry; her most recent collection is Onement Won, out from Wave Books (September, 2025). She is the founder of the conference Thinking Its Presence: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Race, Creative Writing, and Artistic and Aesthetic Practices, a recent recipient of the 2025 NEA Creative Writing Fellowship, and is currently the Henry G. Lee ’37 professor of English at Pomona College.