Indian Rope Trick

<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—2017 has an MFA in Creative Writing from Syracuse University and was awarded a Radio Disney Super Teacher Award for her 19-years’ work as a California Poet in the Schools.</p><p>Prartho’s poems are informed by many years living in a meditation community in India but she also credits excursions into other “art forms:” counseling psychologist mother of two vegetarian cook meditation instructor at Cornell University book illustrator and amateur singer-songwriter. Her life’s ambition is to be a tour guide of the as-yet-unimagined a tender of life’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>