<p><strong><em>Winner of the 2018 Blue Light Book Award </em></strong></p><p>Prartho Sereno is author of three previous poetry collections, including <em>Elephant Raga, Call from Paris</em>, and <em>Causing a Stir: The Secret Lives ' Loves of Kitchen Utensils</em> (illustrated by the author). She served as Poet Laureate of Marin County, California, 2015&mdash;2017, has an MFA in Creative Writing from Syracuse University and was awarded a Radio Disney Super Teacher Award for her 19-years&rsquo; work as a California Poet in the Schools.</p><p>Prartho&rsquo;s poems are informed by many years living in a meditation community in India, but she also credits excursions into other &ldquo;art forms:&rdquo; counseling psychologist, mother of two, vegetarian cook, meditation instructor at Cornell University, book illustrator, and amateur singer-songwriter. Her life&rsquo;s ambition is to be a tour guide of the as-yet-unimagined, a tender of life&rsquo;s creative fires.</p><p>She lives a little north of the Golden Gate Bridge with a sweet man who takes her rowing on the bay.</p>