Megha Sood

Poet

Jersey City, NJ 07310

Email:

megharani1409@gmail.com

Website:

meghasworldsite.wordpress.com/

Twitter:

@meghasood16

Author's Bio

Megha Sood lives in Jersey City, New Jersey. She is an Assistant Poetry Editor for the UK based Literary Arts Journal, Moookychick. She is also a contributing author at GoDogGO Cafe, Heretics, Lovers and Madmen, Sudden Denouement, Candles Online, Free Verse Revolution, Whisper and the Roar and Poets Corner. She was a former contributing editor at Ariel Chart.
Her works have been featured in GODogGO Cafe, Whisper and the Roar, 521 Magazine, Oddball, Pangolin review, Fourth and Sycamore, KOAN ( Paragon press), Mineral Lit Mag, Modern Literature, American Writers Review, SONKU Collective, Poetry Society of New York, WNYC Poetry Prompt, Visual Verse, Vita Brevis, Modern poetry, Spill words Press, Indian periodicals, Literary heist, Little Rose Magazine, The Quiet Corner, Writer's Cafe Magazine, and coming up in Dime Show Review, Piker Press, Cavalcade of Stars, The Stray Branch and many more.
Her 450+ poems have been featured in online and print in various Literary Magazines and poetry journals around 15 countries in the world. Works featured/upcoming in 48 other print anthologies by the US, UK, Australian, and Canadian Press.
Three-time State-level winner of the NAMI ( National Alliance on Mental Illness) NJ Poetry Contest 2018/2019.
Currently co-editing a feminist anthology for the 15-year-old Feminist Literary Journal Mookychick namely THE MEDUSA PROJECT – Feminist Anthology. The anthology curates the writing to celebrate the 100 year anniversary of the women's suffrage movement which celebrates the women's right to vote in the United States.
Literary Partner for the "Life in Quarantine" Project by Standford University, California, USA

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:

Adelaide Poetry Awards Anthology (Adelaide Books, 2020)

Alien Buddha Contracts COVID (Alien Buddha Press, 2020)

Fallow Ground (Inwood Press, 2020)

Poets of the Pandemic Unite (Headline Poetry & Press, 2020)

She Speaks (Sierra Club Books, 2020)

Adelaide Literary Award Poetry Anthology (Adelaide Books, 2019)

Flight Magazine (Nightingale & Sparrow, 2019)

Heat (Nightingale & Sparrow, 2019)

Jitter Press (Prolific Press, 2019)

Lift every voice (Lightning Publications, 2019)

Madness Muse Press (Madness Muse Press, 2019)

Madras Courier (Madras, India, 2019)

Poetica Vol 2 (Poetica Press, 2019)

Reclaim Anthology (Lulu Press, 2019)

Summer's Harvest (Madness Muse Press, 2019)

War Cry from the Uterus (Wide Eyes Publishing, 2019)

Journals:

521magazine

Adelaide Literary Magazine

American Writers Review

Ariel Chart

Beautiful Space

Beneath the Rainbow

Better Than Starbucks

Black Bough

Crêpe & Penn

Dime Show Review

Dissident Voice

Door is a Jar Magazine

Former People: A Journal of Bangs and Whimpers

Fourth & Sycamore

Good Poetry

Gyroscope Review

Haiku Journal

Headline Poetry & Press

Home Planet News

I am not a silent poet

Inwood Indiana

Jitter Press

Kissing Dynamite: A Journal of Poetry

Leaves of Ink

Literary Heist

Memoryhouse

Mineral Lit Mag

Modern Poetry in Translation

Mojave Heart Review

Oddball Magazine

Pangolin Review

Paragon Journal

Poetic Diversity

Poetica

Poetica Review

Poetry Quarterly

Poppy Road Review

Praxis

Quail Bell

Scarlet Leaf Review

Subterranean Blue Poetry

The Basil O'Flaherty

The Drabble

The Piker Press

The Stray Branch

Treehouse

Unheard Magazine

Visitant

Vita Brevis

vox poetica

Prizes won:

State-level 1st prize winner in NAMI NJ Dara Axelrod Mental Health Poetry contest 2018.
State-level 3rd prize winner in the NAMI NJ Dara Axelrod Mental Health Poetry contest 2019.
State-level 1st prize winner in the NAMI NJ Dara Axelrod Mental Health Poetry contest 2020.
National Level 1st prize winner in the Spring Robinson/Red Mahogany Poetry Prize 2020.
Essay and Poetry accepted for the "Life in Quarantine" Project by Stanford University sponsored by CESTA and The Poetic Lab, USA
Work selected for reading at the Jersey City Writers "Survival is Insufficient Series" based on the National Book Award Finalist.
Work selected for reading at the "Overcoming limitation" series by the Jersey City Writers sponsored by the Jersey City council of Arts.
Poetry reading at the NAMI ( National Alliance for Mental Illness) Annual awards and Luncheon program 2019.
Poetry reading at the Rooftop series at the Department of Cultural Affairs (DOCA) as part of the Jersey City Poetry Festival.
Anthology selected to be featured in the Poets House Summer Showcase in Manhatten, NY.
Anthology selected as a finalist in Indie Excellence Awards 2020.
Work selected for reading at the "of Myths and Monsters" series by the Jersey City Writers sponsored by the Jersey City council of Arts.
Work featured in America's Best Emerging Poets Series New Jersey edition by Z Publishing
Mentioned in the Top 20 in the Pangolin Poetry Prize 2019 Judged by Melissa Studdard
Blog listed as Top 100 poetry blogs to be followed in 2020 by Feedspot
Semifinalist in the National Poetry competition by Ewen and Weber Publishing
Poetry Reading listed in the Top 20 in the WildSounds Poetry Festival, Los Angeles
Finalist in the Adelaide Literary Award 2019 for the Best Poem Category
Nominated for the Arcs Prose Poetry Award 2020
Work selected in the World's Biggest Poetry Anthology: Sounds of Peace (SOPWBACP) by League of Poets.
Poetry featured on the Dineen Hull Arts Gallery, New Jersey in honor of the National Poetry Month 2020 in collaboration with Hudson County Community College (HCCC) and Department of Cultural Affairs (DOCA)
Poetry Published in the Desh Videsh Media Group, Florida, USA eMagazine in honor of the National Poetry Month
Poetry accepted for the WNYC Poetry Challenge: "Your poems from isolation" to be featured in Gothamist.com.
Nominated for Women Global Award 2020 ( iWomanGlobal Awards) under the Literature Category.
Haiku included in sound collage project in works by OCMA ( Orange County Museum of Arts), California, USA curated by Sound artist Alan Nakagawa
Longlisted in Erbacce Prize 2020 amongst 9000+ entries
Finalist in Jessie Haver Butler Poetry Contest 2020
Finalist forTWIBB ( The Woman Inc Beyond Black) Sakhi Annual Poetry Awards 2019

Watch

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Convulsions, written by Megha Sood
Convulsions, written by Megha Sood and performed for Overcoming Limitations!
Posted by Jersey City Writers on Monday, June 10, 2019

Listen

International Finalist 2019 by Poetry Matters Project

Personal Favorites

Favorite authors:

Kaveh Akbar, Maya Angelou, Shel Silverstein, Edgar Allen Poe, Sylvia Plath, Ilya Kaminsky, Jericho Brown, Walt Whitman, Alexander McCall Smith, Paulo Cohelo, David Sedaris, David Mitchie, Tracy Smith, Natasha Tretheway, Ruskin Bond, Rumi, Ocean Vuong

What I'm reading now:

Deaf Republic by Ilya Kamisnsky, The Tradition by Jericho Brown, Collection by Maya Angelou by Maya Angelou, The Art of Topiary by Jan Wagner, Night Sky with exit wounds by Ocean Vuong, Lean Against this Late Hour by Garous Abdolmalekian, Calling a Wolf a Wolf by Kaveh Akbar, A Primer for Poets and Readers of Poetry by Gregory Orr

More Information

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Identifies as:

South Asian

Prefers to work with:

Adults

Fluent in:

English, Hindi

Born in:

Naya Nangal, India, PB

India

Punjab

Raised in:

Delhi,India, DL

India

Delhi

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Last update: Aug 28, 2020