She is your typical girl next door and yet, she is everything but typical. She studied at Welham Girls School wherein she was selected to go to the US of A on a Rotary Exchange. She served as a cultural ambassador of India for a year and attended Stormlake High School at Iowa. There are very interesting stories she shares on the way India was viewed by the locals, at the time. She came back and studied at Sydenham College and helped in her family business of creating sterling silver artefacts. In addition, she also did an extensive 3 year course in the manufacture and design of precious and semiprecious jewellery. Marriage brought her to Dehradun, where she is currently based. Pooja is an Entertainment Planner with fifteen years’ experience in managing corporate events. When she is not writing, she is pursuing golf, travelling and is attempting to learn cooking! She hasn’t had any formal training in writing and neither does she have a dedicated time or place. She writes with her heart and her words show that. She writes, literally in the parking lots, while waiting for her kids extra curriculars to get over. “Its my way of spending as much time as I can with them as they only come home 4 months of the year so I don’t want to miss a thing about them growing up.” Incidentally, “Don’t wanna miss a thing” by Aerosmith is her favourite song. Her biggest asset is her ability to restart in life. Her debut book, Pursuit – Drawn by Destiny has won her an award for best fiction and was nominated for the Valley of Words Literature festival as well. She has been bogging on relationships for over two years and when asked why relationships, she simply smiled and said, “Everyone needs to love and be loved. To me, this is the eternal truth of life. Nothing drives as love can." She is a die hard mush magnet and yes, movies do make her cry. To find more on her, please visit her at www.poojapoddarmarwah.com