If we take a moment to examine our lives, we can find meaningful, even exciting connections between our mundane moments and the society we live in. In this workshop, we will write together to explore how we can find the words we need to create the communities we would like to be. All are welcome. No prior creative writing experience is required and prompts will be provided. Lunch and informal discussion to follow.

Tsering Wangmo Dhompa is the author of The Politics of Sorrow, an account of early Tibetan exile political life in India published by Columbia University Press (2025). She has several collections of poetry: My Rice Tastes Like the Lake, In the Absent Everyday and Rules of the House (all from Apogee Press, Berkeley), and a non-fiction book, Coming Home to Tibet (Shambhala Publications, 2014)

This event is open to all students, faculty, staff, and members of the public consistent with University policy and state and federal law.

Presented by the Center for South Asian Studies and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute