NASRA is a queer Oromo/Somali artist based in Amiskwaciywaskahikan (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 and their newly released ep Salve is their latest call to healing; a blend of herbal medicine, genre-bending poetics and bass-driven sound. Their he(art)work centres the joy, autonomy and freedom of Black/Indigenous Peoples everywhere.
