Asha Jeffers is a scholar and creative writer from Toronto who lives and works in Halifax. Her chapbook of travel poems Mundane, Majestic was published by Anstruther Press in 2021. Her poem “Unpassing” was published as a pamphlet by Annick MacAskill’s Opaat Press in 2025. Her creative writing appears in the The Angle and The Puritan. Her poetry was selected for the Nova Scotia Writers’ Federation’s Poetry in Motion public poetry project in 2020. In her academic life, she is the author of Against! Rebellious Daughters in Black Immigrant Fiction in the United States and associate professor of English and Gender and Women’s Studies at Dalhousie University.