Measure of a Wo/Man

Biographie de Jagjeet Sharma

Jagjeet Sharma is a freelance journalist, poet and author. She hosts a weekly radio show in Ottawa along with her team of dedicated volunteers on CKCU 93.1fm. She has three collections of poems to her credit. Nature's Subtle Seductions, published 2018; Fragments, published 2019. Raindrops, her third collection was launched in June 2020. COVID 19 Chronicles - Reflections on the 2020 pandemic was published in November 2020.
This anthology, a limited edition, was launched in December 2020. It was initiated by the Ottawa Ethnic Media Forum (OEMF) with support from the Media Club of Ottawa. COVID 19 Chronicles Part 2- Road to Recovery anthology was published December 2021. Jagjeet has contributed to several publications, the Ottawa Independent Writers' anthology, "Short stories for a long year, " 2020; "Ottawa Rising, " 2022; Broken Keys Publishing anthology, Love & Catastrophe Poetre, 2021; the Glebe Report (Ottawa); Apt 613, and The Canadian Literature: A quarterly of Criticism and Review.
Jagjeet is also one of the judges on the Bywords poetry selection committee. She is an Ottawa Independent Writers' (OIW) ex-board member; a member of the North Grenville Writers' Circle; a founding member of the Ottawa Ethnic Media Forum, and a member of the Canadian Ethnic Media Association (CEMA). She won the CEMA award for journalistic excellence 2021 in the print category. She is currently working on a collection of short stories, another collection of poems, COVID-19 Part 3 anthology, and other projects.