Pooja Priyamvada

Pooja Priyamvada is an author, columnist, translator, online content & Social Media consultant, and poet. An awarded bi-lingual blogger she is a trained psychological/mental health first aider, mindfulness & grief facilitator, emotional wellness trainer, reflective listener, a mental health researcher, and suicide prevention activist. She has been associated and published at reputed national & global portals. She has translated A Night in the Hills, a collection of short stories by Manav Kaul published by Westland Books in 2019, and Caregivers' Handbook for Down's Syndrome published by Sangati Foundation in 2021. Her ebooks Mental Health: A Primer and Lessons for Life from Death: Papa & I are available on Amazon Kindle. She has an M.Phil. in English Literature and speaks vociferously about issues of gender, identity, and marginalization at varied international platforms and mediums in English, Hindi and Punjabi. Both her blogs have been awarded several times consecutively at the Orange Flower Awards and she has been associated with Kritya International Poetry Festival BBCHindi, The Mighty, The Financial Express, Rising Kashmir, Mad in Asia Pacific, Yahoo, Livemint, Satyahindi, News18, Newslaundry, Menstrupedia, Tarshi, Women’s Web, Navbharat Times, Feminism In India, ShethePeopleTV, Kavita Kosh, The Armchair Journal, RHIme, Get Intimacy, Evolve Beings, Momspresso, Sheroes, Bonobology, Writersmelon Jansatta and Sadaneera.