In 2019 Pooja Nansi became the first female director, aka “The Bedazzler”, of Singapore Writers Festival in its inaugural digital edition. On the festival’s website, she is described as someone who “likes leopard prints and instant noodles”.

Nansi is also a poet and performer, whose work often explores her identity as a woman and representative of an ethnic minority, with three collections of poems under her belt: Stiletto Scars (2007), Love Is an Empty Barstool (2013) and We Make Spaces Divine (2021). She manages the Singapore chapter of Burn After Reading, a collective of young and emerging poets. In her collaboration with the National Institute of Education, Nansi works with teachers to introduce Singaporean literature in classrooms.

A regular name at literary festivals, Nansi has participated at events including the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival, Indonesia; the Goa Literary and Arts Festival, India; and the Queensland Poetry Festival, Australia. In 2015 she represented Singapore at the London edition of Singapore: Inside Out. Nansi also curated a monthly spoken-word and poetry showcase, Speakeasy, from 2013-2018.