As a child she showed unusual talent of being able to recite much that she heard. Seeing such ingenuity, her grandfather started educating her at the time when even men weren't literate. She grew up studying under the light of lanterns. Due to the late establishment of schools in rural part of the country, Goma and her mother passed their high school examination together. She then carried on with her studies and was successful in writing appreciated poems.

After she came to Kathmandu, she started earning her living by teaching children on the main streets. She still remembers the then Police Chief Chandra Bahadur Thapa asking her why she taught children there. The chief asked her to take her students to less busy streets.

Having started writing poems since the age of ten, she remembers Sidhicharan Shrestha saying that she was fit to write poetry, and is thankful for his encouragement. Sidhicharan, Bhawani Bhichu, and other poets have written poems praising her work.

Her poem "Jalan" was published in "Sharada" (a newspaper) in 1937 and she has been writing poems for Sharda since then. Few decades ago, her poems were read as a course syllabus in the high school level too.

At one time, she had filed an application to teach at a school for a monthly wage of Rs.15. But then, Pandit Hemraj rejected her application saying that those literate in English mustn't be allowed to teach.

She started service at the Ministry of Health in 1960, but not seeing any chances for promotion she left the service and started teaching at Darbar High School.

She was inspired by Madan Dev and Shant Dev Bhattarai to write prose. She has contributed many stories, essays, memoirs, and analytical papers to Nepalese publications. She says that literature has developed. She prefers writings to be simple, plain, and without vulgarity.

In her book Nari Hastachyar she has analyzed the literary works of Prem Rajeswari, Lokpriya Devi (sister of Laxmi Prasad Devkota), and Motilaxmi. She is worried that the works of these female literary figures are not well known to the public. She shows dissatisfaction as to the inefficient work of the Royal Nepal Academy.

After she retired, it took her three years to translate Ramayana. She translated the Radheshyam Ramayana's into Nepali, it had 6200 verses and it turned out to be a series of 15 books.

She was honored with Gorkha Dachin Bahu in 1999, Ratna Shree gold medal, and other nine awards for her writing. Mother of a single child named Gargi, Goma has published 15 books. She resided at Chetrapati with her daughter, son in law, and two grandchildren. She died in 2002, two days before a meeting set with Spiny Babbler representatives to outline the favorite short stories she would like to see promoted by this organization.