Jen Sharda lives and writes in the San Francisco Bay Area, lucky to have studied with Arthur Sze, Jane Hirshfield, and Major Jackson at Napa Valley Writers Conferences, joined David St. John’s Cloud View Poets classes in 2013, and joined the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley in 2014. She has published in the Marin Poetry Center Anthology, Spillway, Forge, Burningword Literary Journal, and has work forthcoming in Lullwater Review.