About

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I’m a mother of a smart and energetic twelve-year-old. I started expressing myself creatively in 2017. Since then I have been continuously inspired by events in my life that have helped me in penning my thoughts. I’m an avid reader, love to sing, am an ardent lover of poetry, and sometimes can scribble a few lines too. I love to dance in the rain, have an undying love for nature, and can watch the beautiful sunset for hours.

I have worked in the IT field for almost a decade as a manager, worked crazy hours, and traveled worldwide. I never got the time to creatively express my thoughts in that busy schedule. Now every time I finish a poem, free verse anything it fills me with so much happiness and excitement and a feeling to have created something of my own.

Here is the link to my Linktree Profile: https://linktr.ee/meghasood

Here is the link as a poet in the Directory of Poets and Writers ( Pw. Org): https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/megha_sood

Here is the link to my Amazon Author Page: https://www.amazon.com/~/e/B09RQ9B1C5

Short Bio:

Megha Sood is a multiple Pushcart/Best of Net nominated Award-Winning Poet, Editor, Author, and Literary Activist based in New Jersey, USA. She is an Associate Editor at MookyChick(UK), BrownStone Poets(USA), and Literary Partner in the project “Life in Quarantine” with Stanford University, USA. Advocacy Member of United Nations Association (UNS-USA Chapter). Her works have been widely anthologized in books, magazines, and journals, including Poetry Society of New York, New York Public Library zine, NPR, WNYC Studio, PBS American Portrait, American Writers Review, Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Stanford Daily, Kissing Dynamite, Rising Phoenix Review, and many more.

Advocacy Member of United Nations Association- US Chapter (UNA-USA), Member of National League of American Pen Women ( NLAPW), Member of Women’s National Book Associations (WNBA) , and the 24-years-old NY-based The Artists Forum. She has been Poetry Judge for the 2020 SLAM Poetry competition, IITD (Institute of Information Technology-Delhi) Kaizen’21, 2021 State level NAMI NJ Poetry Contest, and 2023-2022 Judge for the Spoken Word Competition by NY based, The Artist Forum.

Author of Chapbook ( “My Body is Not an Apology”, Finishing Line Press, 2021) and Full Length (“My Body Lives Like a Threat”, FlowerSongPress,2022).Co-Editor of anthologies ( “The Medusa Project”, Mookychick) and (“The Kali Project, Indie Blu(e) Press). Her full-length has been a finalist in three national-level book awards (National Indie Excellence Book Awards, New York Book Festival, American Best Book Awards), featured in the 2022 Indo-American Literary Festival, and Semi-Finalist in “Shirley Holden Grant” by the 2021 National League of American Pen Women.

Recipient of Poet Fellowship 2021 MVICW (Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing), 2020 National Level Winner Spring Mahogany Lit Prize, and Four-Time State-level winner of NJ Poetry Contest. Recipient of  “Certificate of Excellence” from Mayor, Stephen Fulop, Jersey City. New Jersey. Recipient of 2022 mini-grant for NorthEast Kundiman Group. Semi-Finalist in the Playa Flamingo writing residency at Costa Rica by Atmosphere Press.

Performing venues includes New York Poetry Festival, New York Society Library, Hoboken Library, Hoboken Historical Museum, Nuyorican Cafe, Hudson County Community College, In Full Color, BrownStone Poets, Walk_Bye, Oceanside Library, Jersey City Historic Apple Tree House, Arts House, Jersey City, Poetry Festival including “Anantha” by Samyukta Poetry, New York City Poetry Festival, Jersey City Poetry Festival, Newark Arts Festival, Culver Book Festival, Paterson Poetry Festival, Culver Book Festival, New Orleans Poetry Festival, Hartford Book Festival, FEMINEN Arts Turkey festival, SETU Women Poets Festival, Walt Whitman Birthplace Association (WWBA), Women’s National Book Association, When People Speak, When Women Speak and many more. Blogs at https://meghasworldsite.wordpress.com/.Tweets at @meghasood16.

Certificate of Excellence by the Office of Mayor, Steven Fulop for the Walk_Bye Exhibit displayed outside the City Hall, Jersey City.

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Certificate for inclusion as a member in the National League of American Pen Women (NLAPW)

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Certificate Received from CESTA( Centre for Spatial and Textual Analysis), Stanford University, USA as Literary Partner in the LiQ ( Life in Quarantine) Project.

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Biography

Long Bio:

Megha Sood is a New Jersey-based Pushcart/Best of Net Nominated Award-winning poet, editor, author, blogger, and literary activist. She earned her Postgraduate Degree in Computer Application (M.C.A)and Bachelor in Computer Sciences (B.Sc.) from India. She is an Assistant Poetry Editor for the UK-based Arts and Literary Journal MookyChick, Literary Partner in the “Life in Quarantine” Project by Stanford University, USA, and former Associate Editor with Literary Journal “Life and Legends”. She is the author of a chapbook (“A Potpourri of Emotions”, Local Gems Press, NY). Chapbook ( “My Body is Not An Apology”, Finishing Line Press, 2021) and Full Length ( “My Body Lives Like a Threat”, Flower Song Press,2021). She co-edited anthologies (“The Medusa Project”, Mookychick) and ( “The Kali Project”, Indie Blu(e) Press). She is also the Associate Editor for the Brownstone Poets Anthology 2022 managed by Patricia Carragon.

Her debut editorial anthology The Medusa Project” has recently been selected as the digital payload to be sent to the moon in 2023 as part of the “Polaris” collection of the LunarCodex Project in collaboration with NASA/SpaceX and Astrobotics Technology. The curator and founder of the project, Dr. Samuel Peralta is responsible for sending the works of almost 6000+ creatives and one A. I  was a part of the most expansive project to the moon vis three different lunar capsules.

“My Body Lives Like a Threat” has been chosen as a semifinalist for the “Shirley Holden Grant for Women Writers” by the National League of American Pen Women (NLAPW). The book has also been a finalist in the 2022 NY Book Festival,  American Book Awards, and National Indie Book Excellence Awards. The book was also featured in the coveted 2022 Indo-American Arts Council Literary Festival.

Her Chapbook ” My Body Is Not an Apology” was ranked at no5  in the Asian American Poetry on Amazon US in October 2021.  She has been nominated numerous times for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. She is also a recipient of the 2021 Poet Fellowship from Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing ( MVICW).

She is also an advocacy member for the United Nations Associations-US Chapter(UNA-US). She is also a member of the Women’s National Book Association (WNBA) and the National League of American Pen Women. (NLAPW)

Her poetry was recently published in the December Newsletter “NOW” of FAO ( Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations) in honor of World Food Day 2021. In addition, for each poem submitted, 10 tree seedlings were purchased on the poet’s behalf by Ms. Rebecca Roach and planted around the world by the Eden Reforestation Projects which employs local stakeholders in areas impacted by deforestation and poverty. Almost 1200 seedlings were donated on behalf of the poets whose work was submitted to the project. Her poetry was published alongside Ellen Bass, Lauren Mukamal Camp, Ellihaj Pringle, and many more.

Her poem “Deciphering the Madness” was also broadcasted on WNYC-Studio Morning Edition as part of National Poetry Month in April 2022. Her co-edited anthology ” The Kali Project” also received a mention in the Dec edition of the Journal of Commonwealth Literature 2022. “The Kali Project” has been a finalist in the 15th Annual Indie Excellence Book Awards. 

Her 850+ works have been featured internationally in literary journals, magazines, anthologies, newspapers, radio stations, and podcasts like Rising Phoenix Review, SONKU, National BEAT Poetry Foundation, Better than Starbucks, Poetry Society of New York,PW.org, Broadway World, New York Public Library(NYPL), WNYC Studios, BlogTalkRadio Show WOW(Wow of Women) Podcast, Pandora Peoples RadioShow on 92.1 FM, New Provincetown, MA and 93.1 FM New Orleans, USA. HUDSON Reporter, NJ.COM/Jersey Journal, New Jersey Stage, Somerville Times, Poets Wear Prada Podcast, UK-based Eat the Storms, Philadelphia Enquirer, LILIPOH, PBS American Portrait, WNYC Studios, Kissing Dynamite, American Writers Review, Dime show review, and many more. 

Performing venues includes New York Poetry Festival, NY Society Library, Nuyorican Cafe, Hudson County Community College, In Full Color, BrownStone Poets, Walk_Bye, Oceanside Library, Jersey City Historic Apple Tree House, Arts House, Jersey City, Poetry Festival including “Anantha” by Samyukta Poetry, Jersey City Poetry Festival, Newark Arts Festival, Paterson Poetry Festival, Culver Book Festival, New Orleans Poetry Festival, Hartford Book Festival, FEMINEN Arts Turkey festival, SETU Women Poets Festival, Walt Whitman Birthplace Association (WWBA), Women’s National Book Association, When People Speak, When Women Speak and many more.

She was the panelist at the #AWP22  ( Association of Writers and Writing Program ) conference for the event “Creative Activism in Words & Action: Writers & Activists at the United Nations” on behalf of Life and Legends. Fellow panelists include Rachel Pittman, Executive Director of the United Nations Association of the United States of America (UNA-USA); Dunya Mikhail, Kresge Fellowship, and the United Nations Human Rights Award for Freedom recipient; Christopher Merrill: Poet, writer, and the director of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, and Kalpna Singh-Chitnis: EIC and Founder of Life and Legends and Silent River Film Festival.

She has been Poetry Judge for the 2020 SLAM Poetry Competition, IITD (Institute of Information Technology-Delhi) Kaizen’21, 2021 State-level NAMI NJ Poetry Contest, and 2022-23 Judge for the Spoken Word Competition by NY based The Artist Forum.

Her literary partnership “Life in Quarantine” with Stanford University has been presented in the Open Education Global Forum 2020 and received mention in the newspaper Stanford Daily. Her sonnet publication with the Poetry Society of New York has been accepted as a Summer Reading curriculum at University High School, Indiana, USA., and has also been transformed into a dance performance by the Van Dance Inc.

She also has been featured on the PBS American Portrait. Her works have also been selected in the literary publication of various US universities like (Temple University, Philadelphia), Stanford University, University of Albany, Kent State University, Chicago University, and Arkansas University. 

Megha is a 2022 Winner of the BroadSide Poetry Contest at the San Gabriel Valley Poetry Festival, a 2022 Finalist for Stafford Lit Festival(UK), a 2020 National Level Winner in the Spring Robinson Literary Prize by Poetry Matters Project, 2020/2019/2018 Three-time NAMI NJ State Level Poetry Contest winner., 2022 Winner of the Broadside San Gabriel Poetry Festival, and 8th Place winner for the Poetry Super HIghyway Contest 2020. Shortlisted in Stafford Lit Festival (2022), Pangolin Poetry Prize 2019(USA), Adelaide Literary Award 2020/2021 (USA), Erbacce Prize 2020/2021(UK), iWomanGlobalAwards 2020(India), TWIBB Beyond Black Sakhi Awards 2020(USA), Poetry Super Highway 2020(USA). Nominated for “Publication of the Month” and “Author of the Year 2020” by Spillwords Press Awards 2021, NYC. She is also the second-place winner in the San Gabriel Broadside Poetry Festival 2021.

Her works have been selected numerous times by the Jersey City Writers Group and the Department of Cultural Affairs for the Arts House Festival. Chosen twice as the international panelist for the Jersey City Theater Center Online Series “Voices Around the World”. and “The Box: Reinvention 2021”.   

Her poetry has been showcased in public spaces such as City Hall, Walk_Bye, Jersey City, Berry Lane Park, NJ, Paterson Poetry Festival 2021, Jersey City Free Public Library, and many more. Her collaboration with the Poetry Society of New York has been turned in to dance performance by the award-winning VanDance Inc. and was presented at the dance festival in 2021. Her poem “Surreal” has been performed at the WildSound Festival, LA by Hollywood Actress Careena Cojeen. Her poem “Survival is an Art”, Finalist in the Pangolin Poetry Contest 2019, has been read and performed by award-winning UK-based singer Tally Koren.

She has been a featured poet at Hoboken Historical Museum, Hoboken Library, New York City Poetry Festival, BrownStonePoets, and Oceanside Library Poetry Reading 2020, NY alongside Brooklyn Poet Laureate and Fellow of Academy of American Poets Maria Lisella. She was also a Featured Poet in Brown Stone Poetry Reading 2020 alongside LA-Based Joshua Corwin and Chad Parenteau. Her events include the Historical Nuyorican Cafe ( April 10,2021) in NYC and a featured poet alongside Alora Young ( Youth Poet Laureate of Nashville) and Sophia Falco in the event “Women in Poetry’s Future” managed by WNBA-DC ( Women’s National Book Association”, DC Chapter) on April 20,2021. She is also been a featured poet in the country’s longest weekly poetry event curated by Kai Coggin, Wednesday Night Poetry. She also has been a featured Poet in the “Night of Poetry” Event to support Cory Provost’s re-election, as District Leader, Kings County, Brooklyn, NY.

Anthologies featuring her works have been mentioned in the Huffington Post and showcased in the Poets House, Manhattan as part of the summer reading 2019. Anthology (“SMITTEN”, Indi(e) Blue Press) has been a Finalist in the Indie Excellence Awards 2020. She was also part of the community poem “Just Breathe” curated by Former Jersey City Poet Laureate Rashad Wright and produced by Arts House Productions featuring 44 poets of Jersey city alongside Mayor Steven Fulop and the councilmen and councilwomen.

Her poem “Angels in Blue” written as an ode to the medical workers during COVID-19 also shares space with the poem written by the President of Ireland Uachtarán na hÉireann Michael D. Higgins in the literary journal Pendemic.

Through her literary partnership with Stanford University, she was able to curate the works of Richard Blanco, US Presidential Inaugural Poet during President Barack Obama’s second term.  Her debut print anthology as an editor (“The Kali Project, Indie Blue Press)  has garnered enough attention in the media and other outlets. You can learn more about it here.

Anthology “Earth: A Place Worth Fighting For”, featuring her poem, curated by the UK-based Staffordshire Poet Laureate, Mel Wardle Woodend has received a letter of thanks from the British Legend Sir David Attenborough. Her works have been anthologized numerous times.

Some notable anthologies include the 25th Annual Anthology by Moonstone Arts Centre alongside Sonia Sanchez, Toi Derricotte, Ethelbert Miller, and many more. “Paws healing the Earth”, River Paw Press” alongside Pulitzer Prize Nominee, Robert Pinsky. Surviving Suicide by Nirala Publications curated by Yututsu Sharma. Poetry Anthology ” New Beats Generation” by National BEAT Poetry Foundation. Anthology “Re-Imagine America” by Vagabond Press alongside US Poet laureate Joy Harjo and  ” Vibrant Voices” anthology by coveted Sahitya Akademy many more.

Black Fire -This Time Anthology by Willow Books featuring, Amiri Baraka, Amina Baraka, Sonia Sanchez, James Baldwin, Eugene Redmond, Gwendolyn Brooks, E. Ethelbert Miller, Kalamu ya Salaam, Everett Hoagland, Nikki Giovanni, Ron Milner, Ismael Reed, Dudley Randall and many more.

Roles and Responsibilities

Press Mentions ( 2018-2023)

 Books and Editing Projects

Co-edited anthologies (“The Medusa Project” , MookyChick, UK ) and ( The Kali Project, Indie Blu(e) Publishing,US).

“The Kali Project”, Invoking the Goddess Within, Indian Women’s Voices by Indie Blu(e) Publishing, Edited by Candice Louisa Daquin and Megha Sood

The Kali Project anthology is a Finalist in 15th Indie Excellence Book Awards

The Kali Project has been mentioned as a reference in the December edition of 2022 Journal of Commonwealth Literature

The Kali Project has brought together the voices of 200+ Indian women speaking their truths. Be it infanticide, family violence, the emerging LGBTQ community in India, or the marital inequity Indian women face, these struggles are penned in exquisite poetry to enlighten and bring awareness. You can know more about the project here.

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The Medusa Project, A Feminist Anthology by MookyChick

“The Medusa Project” drives inspiration from the magical winged warrior and a Greek Gorgon  “Medusa” who rose above all the struggles, atrocities, and abuse in her patriarchal society and carved a niche for her, finally becoming a beacon of strength and resilience for generations to come. This anthology celebrates the 100 years of the woman suffragist movement in the United State which led to the 19th amendment of the US constitution allowing women to vote.

This anthology is a deep exposition of pain and angst carried by the women for generations. It encapsulates the entire angst, rage, and passion and transforms it into thirty poems, mixed with art, poetry, fiction, and the magical rituals spreading throughout this e-book. Released on October 31, 2020, this e-book is free to download. You can know more about e-anthology here. The Medusa Project was recelty selected as a digital payload to be sent to moon via the Lunar Codex Project. 

“The Medusa Project”, is going to the moon!! as part of the “Polaris Collection”  of the LunarCodex Project via Astrobotics Technologies and NASA/SpaceX

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First Chapbook “A Potpourri of Emotions” by Local Gems Press, Long Island,New York

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First Full Length Poetry Collection ” My Body Lives Like a Threat” by Flower Song Press,2021

“My Body Lives Like a Threat” is a

Semi-finalist for the grant by the National League of American Pen Women #NLAPW ,

Finalist at the 16th National Indie Excellence Book Awards 2022   

Finalist at the New York Book Festival 2022,

a 2022 Indo-American Arts Council Literary festival selection.

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Preorder Link and Book listing at the FlowerSong Press: https://www.flowersongpress.com/store-j9lRp/p/my-body-lives-like-a-threat

https://www.flowersongpress.com/forthcoming-author-gallery ( Proud to share the author space with US Poet Laureate Emeritus and Chancellor of Academy of American Poets, Juan Felipe Hererra)

A deep exposition of gender and color-based discrimination, reproductive rights violations, body politics, and the impact of a toxic political environment on the country and its people.

First Chapbook ” My Body is Not an Apology” by Finishing Line Press, Oct 2021

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Read the Advance Reviews here: https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/my-body-is-not-an-apology-by-megha-sood/

My chapbook is a true reflection of the feminist soul that I carry. All the poems in the collection are centered around body politics and its issues. My poems are a deep exposition of gender-based discrimination, and sexual and reproductive rights violations that reference my experience emanating from gender-based bias and the proliferation of hate speech against women. These poems are not only a reflection of the blatant violation of body autonomy and identity but also address the human rights violation in today’s toxic political environment as a whole. This chapbook highlights my journey, gives it a voice, and strengthens the fact that how the body is so central yet it remains invisible and still acts as a threat.

Published Works

My 850+ works have been featured in  PBS American Portrait, Rising Phoenix Review, Pen Women Magazine, WNYC Morning Edition, Ms Magazine,Poetry Society of New York, North of Oxford, LILIPOH, SONKU Collective, American Writers Review, Better than Starbucks,521 Magazine, KOAN ( Paragon Press), Dime Show Review, Little Rose Magazine, Visitant Lit, Quail Bell, American Writers Review, Pendemic, Dream Noir Magazine, The Writer’s Cafe Magazine, The Quiet Corner, Poets Corner, Modern poetry, Spill words, FVR Publishing, Sudden denouement Publishing, Indian periodicals, Literary heist, Ariel Chart, Modern Literature, Fourth and Sycamore, Life in 10 minutes, Piker Press, Poethead, Former People Magazine, Cavalcade of Stars, The Stray Branch, Poetic Diversity, Ofrendas Press, Mojave Heart Review, Nightingale and Sparrow, Treehouse Arts, Praxis Magazine, The Conclusion Magazine, Merak Magazine, Royal Rose Magazine, Night Music Journal, GoDogGoCafe, Whisper and the Roar, Duane Poetree, Visual Verse, Vita Brevis, Dream Noir, Mineral LitMag, Pendemic, and many more.

Anthologies featuring my works have been mentioned in the Huffington Post and showcased in the Poets House, Manhatten as part of the summer reading 2019.

Social Impact

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Anthology (Past and upcoming)

Year 2022-23

  • Earth: A Place Worth Fighting For Stafford Green Arts Festival Poetry Anthology 2021, Anthology by Staffordshire Poet Laureate Mel Wooded, UK, 2021
  • Anthology ” Black Fire This Time” by Willow Books curated by Dr. Kim McMillon. The anthology will be published in February 2022 and include the work of Nikki Giovanni, James Baldwin, Ishmael Reed, Margaret Walker, Dudley Randall, Gwendolyn Brooks, and so many more.
  • Anthology “Reimagine America” by Vagabond Press curated by Mark Lipman featuring the works of Matt Sedillo, David Dephy, Thelma T Reyna, US Poet Laureate and Chancellor for Academy of American Poets, Joy Harjo, and many others.
  • Dovetales: Letters from Self to the World, USA, 2021 featuring Ethel Millar, Former Editor of Poet Lore, This issue will highlight past contributors, among them Sam Hamill, Martín Espada, W.S. Merwin, Adriana Páramo, Stephen Kuusisto,  E.Ethelbert Miller and many more.
  • Boundless Anthology VIPF, Rio Grande Valley International Poetry Festival, 2021 curated by the former McAllen, Texas Poet Laureate, Edward Viduarre, USA
  • Anthology “Paws Healing the Earth”, River Paw Press, 2021 curated by Kalpna Singh Chitnis and includes the work of US Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize Finalist, Robert Pinsky.
  • Surviving the Suicide, Nirala Publications, 2021 curated by Yuyutsu Sharma and featuring the works of esteemed poet Dr. Ravi Shankar.
  • Poetry Featured in “Poetry and COVID” Poetry and COVID ( University of Plymouth) Arts and Humanities Research Council, UK Gov
  • Poetry published in the anthology “New Beats” by  National Beats Poetry Foundation, USA,2022
  • Poetry Published in NYPL ( New York Public Library) ezine, Dec 2021.
  • Anthology 25th Annual Poetry Ink by MoonArts Press curated by Larry Robin featuring the works of Toi Derricote, Sonia Sanchez Tim Tipton, and many others.
  • Poetry published as a featured poet in the “Pen Women” Magazine by The National League of American Pen Women,  (NLAPW) , 2022
  • Anthology on 21-Century Indian English Poets by Seema Jain and Sahitya Akademi, 2022
  • Co-edited Anthology ” Brownstone Poets” featuring the works of Patricia Carragon, Carrie Magnus Radna, Susana H Case, Rescue Poetix, and many more. July 2022, USA
  • Anthology “100 Thousand Poets for Change”, International Women’s Day” and ” Support Ukraine” by Moonstone Arts Press, Philadelphia, USA
  • Anthology ” Home” by The Brown Critique Anthology, March 2022, USA
  • Anthology “Voice Within”  by Pittsburg-based SETU Magazine, USA, March 2022
  • Haiku published in the MS Magazine project as part of The Harriet Tubman Bicentennial Project, USA, 2022
  • Antholgy “Women in Tapestry of Indian Mythology” by Hawakal Publications, India, October 2022
  • Anthology ” Kaleidoscopes” International Calcutta Book Fair 2022 ( International Cultural Centre) Calcutta, India
  • Poetry published as a finalist in Stafford Lit Poetry Competition 2022 ( Poetry For Adults), UK
  • Anthology “Pandemic of Violence II-Poets Speak” 2022 by North of Oxford, US
  • Anthology ” Soul Spaces: Poems About Cities, Towns and, Villages” by AuthorsPress edited by Dr. Anita Nahal, E,. Ethelbert Miller, Jayadeep Sarangi, Cyril Babydeen, Prof. Malashree Lal, Prof. Nandini Sahu, Basundhara Roy Chatterji and Swati Pal, USA, 2022
  • Anthology ” Twin Tower, Twin Decades”  and ” New Jersey Bards Poetry Review” by Local Gems Press by National Beat Poetry Foundation Poet Laureate, James P Wagner, 2022, USA
  • Anthology “Dreams in Hiding” supporting the Little Library 2022,  USA
  • Featured poet in the Pen Women Blog by the National League of American Pen Women (NLAPW)
  • Anthology ” Love Poems” to be published by Thomson Press ( An India Today Group)
  • Poetry and Interview featured in the exophonic journal, Litehouse Journal

Year 2021

  • COVID Anthology Project by Burlesque Press, 2021
  • Twin Tower, Twin Decades Anthology by Local Gems Press, 2021
  • It Can’t Happen Here, MoonStone Arts Press, PA, 2021
  • Adelaide Awards Poetry Anthology 2021, Adelaide Press, NYC
  • Brownstone Poets Anthology, 2021
  • Lessons from the Earth: An e-journal curated by Poet Laureate of Coburg
  • Poetry was published in the Tulsa Review, a literary journal by Tulsa Community College.
  • Poetry Published in the Nebo Journal, 2021
  • Poetry Published in “The Somerville Times” newspaper, section edited by Doug Holder
  • E-anthology curated by the FAO ( Food and Agriculture Organization) of the United Nations and PoetryX
  • Poetry published in the May Day Sonnet Project by the Poetry Society of New York, 2021
  • Black Life Matters, Subterranean Blue Poetry,2021
  • Anthology “But You Don’t Look Sick”, Indie Blue Press,2021
  • Ofrendas Magazine Issue 1, Ofrendas Press, 2021
  • Nursery Rhymes and Children Anthology, Anita Nahal and Dr. Meenakshi Mohan, 2021
  • Earth, Fire, Water and Wind Anthology, Edited and curated  by Dr. Anita Nahal, 2021
  • International Writers Journal, Jan-Mar 2021
  • Assiduous Dust Poetry Anthology by Joshua Corwin, Spring 2021
  • Lockdown Literature Anthology, Culture Cult Press,2021
  • LILIPOH Magazine by Ellaraine Lockie, Jan 2021
  • “Home”, Anthology by SETU Magazine, Rajasthan Press, 2021
  • Fevers of Mind Annual Anthology, David O Lan, 2021
  • Anthology “Time to Wonder”, University of Chicago,2021
  • Poetry Quarterly, Winter Edition, Prolific Press,2021
  • Anthology by Third Eye Butterfly Press,2021
  • Transportation Anthology, Tarifi Press, South Africa, 2021
  • Vita Brevis Press Anthology, 2021
  • Theme: Sex, Spectrum Publishing, 2021
  • Featured as “Time of the Poet” , MIOMBO Publishing
  • Poetry Featured in the February Edition of “Word City” Monthly curated by Darcie Friesen Hossack
  • Poetry Showcase on the Fevers of the Mind Blog
  • Arcs Prose Poetry Anthology, Arcs Poetry Press, 2021
  • Anthology “But You Don’t Look Sick”, Indie Blue Press, 2021
  • Poetry Featured in the ezine  Arts and Literary Journal,Sarawati
  • Anthology ” Poetry on a Plate with spicy mango pickle”, 2021
  • Poetry featured in the Different Truths Journal
  • Poetry Featured in the Fasihi Magazine, Feb 2021
  • Anthology “Krishanashtak”, 2021
  • Anthology “Pixie Dust and All Things Magical” by AuthorsPress, 2021

Year 2020

Year 2018-2019

Book Reviews

Prizes and Awards

Year 2022

  • 2022 Broadside Poetry Contest Winner at the San Gabriel Poetry Festival
  • 2022 Third Place State Level Winner in NAMI ( National Alliance on Mental Illness) NJ Dara Axelrod Poetry Contest
  • Nominated for the “Literary Award” by the office of Mayor and Jersey City Council of Arts (JCCA) for the Jersey City Arts Awards 2022
  • Nominated for the Pushcart Prize 2022 Edition: Best of the Small Presses XLVI
  • Nominated for the ” Best of the Net” by Rainbow Project, 2022
  • Book showcase for the Literary festival by coveted IAAC  Literary Festival ( Indo-American Arts Council),   NY, 2022
  • 2022 Finalist in the Stafford Lit Festival Poetry Contest (UK) by Staffordshire Poet Laureate, Mel Woodend
  • 2022 Finalist in the 16th National Indie Excellence Book Awards for the full-length ” My Body Lives Like a Threat”, FlowerSong Press.
  • Finalist in the New York Book Festival 2022 for the full-length ” My Body Lives Like a Threat”, FlowerSong Press.
  • 2022 Finalist in the UK-based Erbacce Poetry Prize amongst 15,000 entries.

Year 2020-21

Year 2019-18

Interviews 2018-2021

Events

Year 2020-21

Year 2019-18

Lastly, a million thanks to all who visit, like, or follow my tiny bits of creation.
Every time you do that, I get to know one more beautiful person in my life and get the chance to see their creation too.

Thanks again!!
Happy Poetry!!

Megha Sood

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