Omar Musa is an author, visual artist, rapper and poet. He has released four poetry books (including Killernova), a book of short stories (The Vape Lord of Queanbeyan), four hip-hop records and two acclaimed plays, Since Ali Died and The Offering. Fierceland won Australia's most prestigious literary prize, the Miles Franklin Award, and also won the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Fiction.

Musa has had several solo exhibitions of his woodcut prints, including The Hurt Business, and has performed at venues such as the Brixton Academy in London, Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York City and The National Museum in Brasilia, Brazil.