Editor

Editor: Pooja Muthuraj

Pooja is a Master’s in Business Analytics candidate ('26) at the College of William and Mary who has let poetry write her for as long as she can remember.  Her recent work has been published or is forthcoming in Last Leaves Magazine (2025), Hedge Apple Magazine (2025), Furrow Magazine (2025), Rainy Weather Days (2025), The Shallot (2025), Noetica (2025), The Gallery (2024), Amethyst Review (2026), and Intervals (2026).  She was a finalist for the 2025 Goronwy Owen Prize in Poetry and placed in the top five of the 2024 Historic Triangle Grand Slam, and her first chapbook, "18, Whatever that Means," was published in 2023 by BookLeaf Publishing.  You can follow her on Threads @paadi_padutthuraval, where she occasionally shares work.

Pooja has been told she cannot eat art, and true to this, Religion of Love (web hosting fees & contest prizes) is funded out of her part-time paycheck.  She does it for the love of the craft, but if you want to buy her a coffee, she would be so appreciative: https://buymeacoffee.com/religionoflove.

Help wanted: If you would like to volunteer to help run the journal as a co-editor, please reach out to religionoflovejournal@gmail.com.