Language of the Wound is Love - Megha Sood

Sood, Megha: - Megha Sood( She/Her) is an award-winning Asian-American author, poet, editor, curator, and literary activist from New Jersey. She earned her Postgraduate Degree in Computer Application (M.C.A)and Bachelors in Computer Sciences (B.Sc.) from India.A Literary Partner with Life in Quarantine, at Stanford University. Her literary partnership Life in Quarantine with Stanford University has been presented at the Open Education Global Forum 2020 and received mention in the Stanford Daily newspaper.

Her works have been supported by the National League of American Pen Women, VONA, Kundiman, Dodge Foundation, and Martha Vineyard Creative Writing Institute. Her four poetry collections include the award-winning (My Body Lives Like a Threat, FlowerSong Press, 2022) and (My Body is not an Apology, Finishing Lines Press, 2021). She was inducted as an honored listee for the 125-year-old Marquis Who's Who.

A 2020 National Level Winner for the Poetry Matters Project, and a Four-Time State Level Winner for the NAMI NJ Dara Axelrod Poetry Award. Recipient of Certificate of Excellence from Mayor Stephen Fulop, Jersey City. Member of National League of American Pen Women (NLAPW), The Artists Forum (USA), ArtPride (NJ), and United Nations Association-US Chapter.

She has also been chosen as a featured poet for the 2024 Dodge Poetry Festival. Her widely anthologized poems, essays, and other works discuss her experience as a first-generation immigrant and woman of color. Her 900+ works have been widely featured in print, online journals, public exhibits, and anthologies including the Poetry Society of New York, MS Magazine, NYPL, Pen Magazine by American Pen Women, Journal of NJ Poets, Dime Show Review, Panoplyzine, PBS American Portrait, NPR, WNYC Studio, etc and numerous universities including Stanford University, John Hopkins, Howard University, George Mason, Temple University, etc. Her poem Deciphering the Madness was also broadcast on WNYC-Studio Morning Edition as part of National Poetry Month in April 2022.Her co-edited anthology The Medusa Project and other works have been selected to be sent to the moon in 2025 in two separate rocket missions as part of the historical LunarCodex Project in collaboration with NASA/SpaceX.

She lives in New Jersey with her husband and her 14-year-old son.

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