Pooja Joshi

Pooja Joshi is a Desi writer from North Carolina. She is currently based in Boston, where she is pursuing an MBA and MPP at the Harvard Business School and Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Previously, she has worked in health tech strategy and management consulting. Her work has been published in numerous outlets and will be included in the forthcoming Best Microfiction 2024 anthology. Please see below for links to her writing and social media platforms.

Select Writing

Short Fiction

Searching for Trauma in a Coffee Shop in Hive Avenue (pg. 175)
Homesickness in Five Minutes
A Wednesday in Dhaka in The Ilanot Review [Winner, Best Microfiction 2024]
The River Goddess in The William & Mary Review
Sincerely, the Guy Who Saved Your Asses in Greater Than His Nature from Atomic Carnival Books
Demographics in MoonPark Review
House of Lacquer in The Hooghly Review
Cardamom and Other Such Forbidden Thoughts in Radon Journal
Forthcoming:
- WayWords (May 2024)
- Bulb Culture Collective (May 2024)
- Juste Literary (August 2024)
- Oyster River Pages (August 2024)

Poetry

Raga Megh Malhar in The Bombay Review
She Stands Next to Radha in The Ekphrastic Review

Notable

Reader, Five Minutes (May 2023)
Writer-in-Residence, Weymouth Center for the Arts & Humanities (June 2023)
Reader, Five Minutes Annual Contest (October 2023)

Socials

Pooja is represented by Jacqui Lipton of Tobias Literary Agency. Please reach out to Jacqui for any requests related to Pooja's novel-length works.

For anything else, Twitter DM is the best way to reach Pooja!