Omar Musa

Omar Musa is an author, visual artist, rapper and poet from Queanbeyan, Australia. He has written two novels, three books of poetry, five hip-hop records, and two plays, Since Ali Died and The Offering (A Plastic Ocean Oratorio), with cellist Mariel Roberts Musa. His work has appeared in Poetry Magazine, The Best Australian Stories and Best of Australian Poems.
His debut novel Here Come the Dogs was long-listed for the International Dublin Literary Award and Miles Franklin Award and he was named one of the Sydney Morning Herald’s Young Novelists of the Year in 2015. His second novel, Fierceland, won the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Fiction and the Miles Franklin award in 2026.
He has had several solo exhibitions, including The Hurt Business.