About

Nasia is a prize-winning writer and researcher currently pursuing a PhD in Creative and Critical Writing at Swansea University. Her research, funded by the Swansea University Research Excellence Scholarship (SURES), focuses on the colonisation of India and Pakistan, decolonisation, migration, and how these histories intersect with memory and gender. In addition to her academic work, Nasia is a creative facilitator and a qualified solicitor.

In 2023, Nasia won the prestigious Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize 2023 in the life writing category. She is also the co-editor of Gathering, an essay anthology featuring work by women of colour on nature, climate, and landscape, published by 404 Ink.

Nasia has led numerous creative workshops on writing for well-being and nature writing, engaging both adults and children. She developed Notes on Nature, a week-long residential course delivered at Tŷ Newydd Writing Centre of Wales in 2023. Actively involved in community projects, she has worked with Cardiff's local communities and has been commissioned by Literature Wales and Natural Resources Wales to explore the connection between nature and well-being through creative expression.

In 2019 Nasia received a bursary and mentorship with Literature Wales and was a 2017 shortlist for the Penguin Write Now programme. Nasia's work has been widely published, including in Wasafiri, Just So You Know (Parthian Books, 2020), In the Kitchen (anthology), Poetry Wales, Visual Verse, Lumin, and Gal-dem.

Nasia is currently the artist-in-residence at the National Museum Wales St Fagans, working on a decolonisation project titled Perspective(s). This project combines creative research around material memory and colonisation, resulting in installations and film.

Her writing transcends traditional boundaries of linear narratives and genre, reflecting her belief that writing is an accumulation of experiences, dreams, and memories.

Nasia's research and writing interests include: Colonisation, memory, migration, decolonisation, subjugated histories, British South Asian culture, museology, nature writing, archives, and photography.