Precious Chika Musa

Precious Chika Musa is the daughter of Nigerian immigrants, a poet, storyteller, and visual artist whose creative work navigates grief, Home, and the experience of living in a body. Chika’s poetry and prose appear in "Tupelo Quarterly," where her experimental play-poem, "Elegy for the Still Living," was selected as a finalist for their Prose Open Prize, "The Journal of the American Medical Association" (JAMA), "West Trestle Review," "Black Perspectives," and elsewhere. In partnership with the St. Louis-based Griot Museum of Black History, Chika launched her debut curatorial exhibit, "Listen, Look: A Reconciliatory Journey Through Black Grief and Joy," which showcased the visual art, dance, poetry, and vocals of St. Louis artists unpacking grief and joy in Black life. In 2021, Musa earned her MFA in Writing from Washington University in St. Louis. When she’s not dreaming about an Afro-futurist landscape, Precious volunteers for the Reparative Justice Coalition of St. Louis where she moves forward projects commemorating histories of racial violence in the Midwest.