Pujita Verma

Pujita Verma is an Indo-Canadian poet and illustrator. She was formerly Mississauga’s Youth Poet Laureate and a Poetry in Voice National Finalist. In 2023, she won the League of Canadian Poets’ Broadsheet Contest, a Mississauga Arts Council Award, the Janice Colbert Poetry Award (Runner-Up), and the Eden Mills Writer’s Festival Literary Contest (Poetry). Pujita’s work has appeared or is forthcoming across the TTC network, on CBC’s The National, in Poetry Pause, Freefall Magazine, the MAZA Anthology, and the Emerge! Chapbook (PS Guelph, 2023). She holds her Honours BA (Political Science) from Western University and works as a Project Officer for War Child.