PRAGEETA SHARMA received an MFA in Poetry from Brown University, where she won the Academy of American Poets Prize, and an MA in Media Studies from The New School. Sharma's parents came to the US from India in 1969; she was born in 1972 and grew up in Massachusetts. Sharma teaches at Cambridge College in Massachusetts and resides in Brooklyn, New York. Her writing has appeared in journals such as Boston Review, Agni, Fence, and The Women's Review of Books.