NASRA is a queer, Muslim, Oromo creator based in Amiskwaciy (Edmonton) on Treaty 6 territory. Nasra acts as Director/Founder of Black Arts Matter- Alberta’s interdisciplinary Black Arts festival, and was a former Youth Poet Laureate of Edmonton.

Their debut chapbook A God Dance in Human Cloth was the co-recipient of the Bp Nichols National Chapbook Award. Their heartwork and artwork centres the joy, autonomy and freedom of Black/Indigenous Peoples everywhere.