About Author
Discover more of the authors books, see similar authors, read book recommendations and more. Pooja Priyamvada is an author, columnist, professional translator, content & language consultant. Currently she is Academic Director at International Institute of Mass Media (IIMM) Delhi. She has been a facilitator of an online course- Leadership & Management in Health offered by University of Washington since 2021. She is also co-founder of the impact platform Bharat Dialogues. She has translated Abhi Baaki Hai Safar, Hindi Translation of Priyanka Chopra Jonas Memoir UNFINISHED {Penguin,2024}, Coolie Lines ,English Translation {Vani Prakashan, 2024}, Manav Kauls A Night in the Hills, English Translation {Penguin, 2024 & Westland Books,2019} Rooh: A novel, English Translation {Penguin, 2023}, Joseph Murphy's The Power of the Subconscious Mind to Aapke Avchetan Mann ki Shakti {Penguin, 2022}, and Caregivers' Handbook for Down's Syndrome English Translation {Sangati Foundation, 2021}. Her eBooks Mental Health: A Primer and Lessons for Life from Death:Papa & I and English translations Land of Ghosts: Iceland & JP: From Nayak to Loknayak {Bonzuri Prime} are available on Amazon Kindle. She has been awarded ERDA Award of Excellence for Women Empowerment 2024, 8th Dr. Sarojini Naidu International Award for Working Women 2024 by International Chamber of Media & Entertainment Industry & International Womens Film Forum, INSPIRE Beyond Motherhood MAKING A DIFFERENCE Award 2024, Changemaker Nari Samman 2024 by SHE FORWARD, Jagran Josh Educationist of the year award (finalist) 2024, LREA 2023 award for Women Leadership in Education by LSDB United Kingdom, Shiksha Gaurav Puruskar 2023 by Universal Mentors Association in 2023, INSPIRE Beyond Motherhood Inspirational Educationist of the year Award 2023 (Finalist), 50 Inspiring women 2022 award by Fox Story India and India Prime Women Icon award 2022 by Foxclues. Both her blogs have been awarded several times consecutively at the Orange Flower Awards in various categories. She is a part of the organising team of Kritya International Poetry Festival and has been actively organising theatre and reading workshops at the National Museum, New Delhi as a core member of the Heritage and Art group Herithart. She has been featured as an esteemed foreign poet at The International Festival of Poetry ORPHEUS PLOVDIV 2022, Bulgaria. Some of her poems are taught as part of Modern World Poetry course at Alisher Navo'i Tashkent State University. She is also an awarded bi-lingual blogger, All India Radio announcer and multi-disciplinary professor of practice. She is a trained mental health counselor, emotional wellness corporate trainer, mindfulness and grief facilitator, reflective listener, mental health researcher and suicide prevention and awareness activist. She has been associated and published at reputed national & global portals and anthologies. She has an M.Phil. in English from Panjab University and speaks vociferously about issues of gender, identity, and marginalisation at several International platforms and mediums. She has taught Disability Competencies using poetry to Medical Students in UCMS Delhi and actively conducts mental health awareness and emotional wellness talks, webinars, workshops and programs at several forums. She has been featured amongst 10 Indian Women Bloggers you must follow and 25 writers whose work readers enjoyed the most at Womens Web in 2018 and also in Most empowering moments by Indian women by SheThePeopleTV. She has to her credit Mental Health columns for The Financial Express, Rising Kashmir & Navbharat Times. She has been associated with reputed national and international online addresses like BBCHindi, The Mighty,Mad in Asia Pacific, Yahoo, Livemint, Satyahindi, News18, The Quint, Wion, Newslaundry, Menstrupedia, Tarshi, Womens Web, Feminism In India ShethePeopleTV, Kavita Kosh, The Armchair Journal, RHIme, Momspresso, Sheroes, Bonobology, Evolve Beings, Writersmelon, Jansatta and Sadaneera and many more. She has also been featured on BBC World News Service BBC OS Conversations and has appeared on reputed platforms like Sahitya Aaj Tak by Aaj Tak, World Education Summit, Global Eduverse Summit, Edtalk World Conference & several other global forums as a speaker/panelist. She also translates for other forums like the Sahitya Akademi and The Raza Foundation. Her poetry and fiction have been published in several reputed online journals and print anthologies in India, UK and Canada, and a few poems can be read with a hot cup of coffee on the walls of The Human Bean Cafe, Cobourg, Toronto. Her areas of work are mental health, disability activism, sexual wellness, gender, and marginalisation, and her favourite mediums remain poetry and theatre. A single parent and fibromyalgia survivor, she believes that she derives her strength from being a voracious reader, tea connoisseur & a keen observer of life & times around her.
