Pooja Ugrani, architect, teacher and mother, lives her life in two cities, Bombay and Bangalore. Her poems are included in the anthologies The Shape of a Poem – The Red River Book of Contemporary Erotic Poetry, The Kali project anthology – Invoking the Goddess within/ Indian Women’s Voices by Indie Blue Publishing LLC, the Yearbook of Indian Poetry 2022 and Po’try, an anthology of Bangalore poets. Her poem, Gundalamma Palem was shortlisted as one of the forty poems out of over thousand international entries for the Alpine Fellowship 2023. Her poetry has been published in The Punch Magazine, Cafe Dissensus Everyday, Mom Egg Review (New York), Hākārā, Voice and Verse Poetry
Magazine (Hong Kong), The Tiger Moth Review (Singapore), The Alipore Post, The Woman Inc – TWI Poetry, and the RIC Journal (Jaipur-Paris).
Ugrani was invited to read at the Bangalore Poetry Festival and by the Champaca bookstore at the Bangalore International Center on the occasion of International Womens’ Day. She was a featured poet at
Tuesdays with the Bard at Urban Solace, Ulsoor, in December 2019. 
While she is relaxing, Pooja Ugrani explores origami with children and adults, sings Bollywood songs and dreams of a trek in the Himalayas.