About

Nasia is a prize-winning writer, researcher, and creative facilitator with a PhD in Creative and Critical Writing from Swansea University. Funded by the Swansea University Research Excellence Scholarship (SURES), her research focused on the colonisation of India and Pakistan, decolonisation, migration, and the intersections of memory and gender. Alongside her creative and academic practice, she is also a qualified solicitor.

She is co-editor of Gathering, an anthology of essays by women of colour on nature, climate, and landscape, published by 404 Ink.

Nasia is currently a writer in residence on Lit in Place, Literature Wales’ flagship project exploring the climate and nature emergency through literature, run in partnership with WWF Cymru. Her residency focuses on the River Taff and the communities, histories, and ecologies that surround it.

From 2023 to 2025, Nasia was artist-in-residence at St Fagans National Museum of History, where she developed Perspective(s), a decolonisation project combining creative research, material memory, film, and installation.

In 2023, she won the Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize 2023 in the Life Writing category. Her work has been widely published in The Hajar Book of Waves (Hajar Press, forthcoming), Wasafiri, Poetry Wales, Gal-dem, Visual Verse, Lumin, and in anthologies including Just So You Know (Parthian Books, 2020) and In the Kitchen.

Nasia leads workshops for adults and young people on writing, wellbeing, nature connection, and archival research. In 2023, she developed and delivered Notes on Nature, a week-long residential course at Tŷ Newydd Writing Centre. She has also worked extensively with communities across Cardiff and has been commissioned by Literature Wales and Natural Resources Wales to explore the relationship between nature, place, and wellbeing through creative practice.

Earlier in her career, she received a Literature Wales bursary and mentorship and was shortlisted for Penguin’s WriteNow programme.

Her writing moves across and beyond conventional genre boundaries, often engaging with acts of memorialisation across archives, objects, and personal testimony, to explore memory, identity, histories of resistance, and their relevance in contemporary contexts. It draws together photographs and memory to explore overlooked histories, migration, decolonisation, and questions of belonging.