About
Asmaa Jama is an artist and writer, working across text, painting, moving image and performance, with their practice deeply preoccupied with the image and texture of burning. Drawing from Islamic cosmology, they explore jinn and other beings made of fire as metaphors for spectres, ghostliness, and the crossing of realms. Jama was the winner of the Geoffrey Dearmer prize, and was commended by the Brunel African Poetry Prize and the Wasafiri Writing Prize. Jama is a Cave Canem 2021 Fellow and a Barbican Young Poet (2023). And has been published in anthologies by Flipped Eye and 20.35 Africa, and Comma Press.
