Pooja's essays have appeared in Cicada (Cricket Group, November/December 2003) and in an anthology titled Women Who Eat: A New Generation on the Glory of Food (Seal Press, November 2003).  Her essay, "The First Time" was the recipient of the 2003 Magazine Merit Award Honor in Nonfiction by the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators.

Her short stories have been published in New Moon (New Moon Publishing, Inc., November/December 2005) and Kahani (Kahani, Inc., February 2005).

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