Pooja Garg Singh

Pooja Garg (Singh) is a US based communications specialist, poet and author. Everyday and Some Other Days is her first collection of poems. Domestic violence and abuse volunteer, Pooja is currently working on a project chronicling survivor stories. Founder, Managing Editor for The Woman Inc. which aims at providing a platform and resources for abuse victims and survivors, Pooja combines writing with grassroots activities including poetry as therapy workshops. Chosen by Eclectica as Best of Poetry in the last 20 years, Shabana Azmi called her debut collection of poems ‘very moving and a must read’. Invited by Indian High Commission in New York and other platforms for poetry reading, her poems, essays and articles have found place in The Feminist Wire, The Aerogram, Boston Coffee House, The Missing Slate, The North East Review, The Brown Critique, Jaggery, India Resists, The Bangalore Review, Muse India, Open Road Review, Cafe Dissensus and various poetry anthologies. After stepping down as Poetry Editor for Open Road Review and Book Review Editor for Jaggery, Pooja is happy to be back with Jaggery as Poetry Editor. Pooja also writes stories for the very popular and much awarded Indian radio show, Yaadon Ka Idiot Box. With extensive experience in journalism and publishing, Pooja has been Principal Correspondent for India Today and Bureau Chief, New Delhi for CIO. Pooja is a corporate communications expert who has worked with Amity Business School as well as her many clients. Adding to her communications repertoire, Pooja has studied Digital Marketing at Columbia Business School, New York in her endeavor to learn and optimize on-ground and digital outreach efforts for her non-profit and her other clients. Always looking for quietude, Pooja believes her words are incidental.