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 short fiction has been published in numerous fine outlets and was selected for the Best Microfiction 2024 anthology. She is currently working on her first novel. Please see below for links to her writing and social media platforms. 

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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 Bulb Culture Collective (originally published 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 (nominated for Orison Books' Best Spiritual Literature 2025 anthology)

• Cardamom and Other Such Forbidden Thoughts in Radon Journal (reprinted in Tea Table AAPI Arts Magazine)

• Hearts of Stone in WayWords Journal

• The Last Supper in Juste Literary

• Anarkali in Oyster River Pages

• Forthcoming:

  • Yorick Radio (Fall 2024)

Non-Fiction / Academic

• Shimla High School & Camp Sunshine: Negotiating Over Limited Resources with Harvard Kennedy School Case Program 

• 2024 Report on Transitioning to High-Value Health Systems in the G20+ Countries with Health Systems Innovation Lab (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health)

• Driving Equitable Healthcare Innovations through AI for Medicaid with Federation of American Scientists

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)

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