{"id":252,"name":"Prartho Sereno","url":"","description":"Prartho Sereno, Poet Laureate of Marin County, CA (2015-2017), has devoted her life to exploring and nurturing the creative process. It was her MA thesis topic in Counseling Psychology, funded by a National Science Foundation grant. Inspired by her research, she incorporated various art forms in her 15+ years work as a psychologist with troubled youth and their families, Alzheimer\u2019s, psychiatric, and Hospice patients. She deepened her own practice for over four years in India, where she studied the effects of meditation on creativity. In 1999 Prartho became a California Poet in the Schools and was awarded a 2005 Radio Disney Super Teacher Award for that work. She earned an MFA in Creative Writing from Syracuse University in 2013 and is author of four national prize-winning poetry collections\u2014<em>Indian Rope Trick<\/em> (2018), <em>Elephant Raga<\/em> (2015), <em>Causing a Stir: The Secret Lives and Loves of Kitchen Utensils<\/em> (2007) and <em>Call from Paris<\/em> (2007\/14)\u2014along with a collection of personal essays: <em>Everyday Miracles: An A to Z Guide the Simple Wonders of Life<\/em> (1998).\u00a0A PDF version of <em>Tending the Roots<\/em> is available at her website: www.prarthosereno.com.","link":"https:\/\/teachersandwritersmagazine.org\/author\/prarthosereno\/","slug":"prarthosereno","avatar_urls":{"24":"https:\/\/teachersandwritersmagazine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screen-Shot-2022-07-27-at-1.12.38-PM-1.png","48":"https:\/\/teachersandwritersmagazine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screen-Shot-2022-07-27-at-1.12.38-PM-1.png","96":"https:\/\/teachersandwritersmagazine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screen-Shot-2022-07-27-at-1.12.38-PM-1.png"},"meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachersandwritersmagazine.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/252"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachersandwritersmagazine.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users"}]}}