What will be left of us?


Omar Musa

Omar Musa is an award-winning author, poet and rapper. He won the Australian Poetry Slam in 2008 and the Indian Ocean Poetry Slam in 2009. His debut novel, Here Come the Dogs, was published in 2014, and was long-listed for the Miles Franklin Award. Musa was named one of the Sydney Morning Herald’s Young Novelists of the Year 2015.

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