Pooja Nansi is the author of three collections of poetry and the co-author of a teacher’s resource for Singaporean poetry. She was also a recipient of the Young Artist Award in 2016, Singapore’s highest accolade for Arts practitioners below the age of 35 as well as Singapore’s inaugural Youth Poet Ambassador. She has 15 years of experience in secondary and tertiary education across Literature and Creative Writing.
Her key performance work includes her one woman show, You Are Here which explores issues of migration through personal family histories. It opened in Singapore and has toured to Australia. She also wrote and performed Thick Beats for Good Girls with Checkpoint Theatre which opened in April 2018 and explored the intersections between feminism, identity and Hip Hop.
She served as festival director of the Singapore Writers Festival from 2019-2023. Her tenure has been referred to as transforming the pinnacle event for local writers and readers to become more all-encompassing and generous. She currently teaches Creative Writing at Nanyang Technological University.