Pooja Garg

Founder Editor-in-Chief

Domestic violence and abuse volunteer, Pooja advocates for rights and welfare of women and children. Currently working on a project chronicling survivor stories, she combines writing with grassroots activities, including poetry as therapy workshops. Shabana Azmi called her debut collection of poems ‘very moving and a must read’. Listed on Amazon, her collection, ‘Everyday and Some Other Days’ has gone into a second reprint. Invited by the Indian High Commission in New York, Pooja has been asked to share her poems on other platforms around the world. Chosen by Eclectica as Best of Poetry in the last 20 years, her poems, essays and articles have been published 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 other poetry anthologies. She has been Poetry Editor for Open Road Review and Book Review Editor for Jaggery, and is now 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 and now works with Raksha, a non-profit organization for domestic violence victims in Atlanta. 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. More about Pooja here.

Anu Mahadev

Editor

An abuse victim in past, Anu Mahadev is a poet based in New Jersey. She is a 2016 MFA graduate of the Drew University’s MFA program in Madison, NJ. With two poetry collections to her credit, Anu is a curious reader and lifelong learner. She is passionate and outspoken about issues such as domestic violence, girls’ education and independence, and depression/bipolar disorder. She loves music, languages, animals and long walks.

Bhaswati Ghosh

Editor

Bhaswati Ghosh writes and translates fiction and non-fiction. Her first book of fiction is ‘Victory Colony, 1950’. Her first work of translation from Bengali into English, ‘My Days with Ramkinkar Baij’ won her the Charles Wallace (India) Trust Fellowship for translation. Bhaswati’s writing has appeared in several literary journals, including Scroll, The Wire, Cargo Literary, Cafe Dissensus Everyday, Pithead Chapel, Warscapes, and The Maynard. Bhaswati lives in Ontario, Canada. Visit her at https://bhaswatighosh.com/

Ananya Sankar

Social Media and Editorial Assistant

Ananya Sankar is an honors journalism student at Northeastern University in Boston and has an avid interest in women’s studies. She previously interned at the Mumbai tabloid Mid-Day and worked as an editor for her town’s local newspaper. She was also mentored by New York Times reporters during a summer program in Oxford, England, where she gained a passion for exploring untold stories.