She taught at Temasek Junior College for nine years and held the position of head of Language Arts and English Literature for part of her time there.
[4][5] Pooja Nansi was first inspired to write her own poetry upon her first encounter with Sylvia Plath's poem, Daddy, in a school library.
[1] Her creative influences include old Bollywood songs,[6] hip-hop artists such as Drake, Kendrick Lamar and Snoop Dogg,[7] pop music such as Britney Spears and Elton John, and poets such as Cyril Wong and Leonard Cohen.
She disagrees with being defined as a performance or page poet as she believes that poetry can exist in multiple ways without the need for distinction.
In 2018, Nansi was announced as the new director of Singapore Writers Festival from 2019, taking over the position from poet Yeow Kai Chai.