She is a former staff writer for The Guardian newspaper,[1] and writes regularly for national and international media.
She is a patron of the SI Leeds Literary Prize for unpublished fiction by Black and Asian women in the UK.
[2] Since 2019, Pool has been Artistic Director/CEO at the Bernie Grant Arts Centre in Tottenham, north London.
[6] After leaving university, Pool became a journalist on the Manchester Evening News and has written extensively for The Guardian newspaper, where for several years she wrote the fashion column "The New Black".
[7] However, at the age of 19 she had received a letter informing her that her genetic father and siblings were alive in Eritrea.