Mapmakers Alumni Institute Between Sighs: On Writing Through Grief Monday, December 8, 2025, 5:30 pm PT via Zoom

How can we navigate the creative writing life while simultaneously navigating the waves of grief? In this Mapmakers session, MFA alum Georgina Marie Guardado and award-winning poet Prageeta Sharma will offer a reading and conversation, followed by an audience Q&A, on writing through grief. This hour-long event will be suitable for writers of all levels and genres and all forms of grief, in all of its nuances and complexities.

Prageeta Sharma is the author of six collections of poetry, most recently, Onement Won (Wave, 2025) and Grief Sequence (Wave, 2019). She is the founder of the conference Thinking Its Presence: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Race, Creative Writing, and Artistic and Aesthetic Practices, the Henry G. Lee ’37 professor of English at Pomona College and a recent recipient of the 2025 NEA Creative Writing Fellowship.

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