Pooja Nansi was born on November 27,1981 and is a Singaporean poet, musician and educator.
14 Facts About Pooja Nansi
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Pooja Nansi's family moved to Singapore when she was one and a half years old.
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Pooja Nansi grew up in Katong and attended Telok Kurau Primary School and CHIJ Katong Convent from 1988 - 1997.
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Pooja Nansi wanted to be a teacher from a young age and would teach her dolls as a child.
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Pooja Nansi attended the National University of Singapore and started teaching upon graduation.
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Pooja Nansi 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.
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Pooja Nansi was a writer-in residence at Nanyang Technological University and currently teaches creative writing part-time.
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Pooja Nansi was first inspired to write her own poetry upon her first encounter with Sylvia Plath's poem, Daddy, in a school library.
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Pooja Nansi's work is combination of poetry, music and performance.
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Pooja Nansi 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.
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Pooja Nansi met other contemporaries such as poets Marc Nair and Ng Yi-Sheng and musician Bani Haykal during this time.
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Pooja Nansi published her first poetry collection, Stiletto Scars, in 2007 under Word Forward's publishing arm.
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Pooja Nansi created the platform to bring both communities together.
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In 2018, Nansi was announced as the new director of Singapore Writers Festival from 2019, taking over the position from poet Yeow Kai Chai.