[10][25] She has also curated and advised on such exhibitions as At the Heart of the Nation: Indians in Britain, and 2018's Windrush: Songs in a Strange Land for the British Library.
[11] She has published widely on post-colonial and contemporary writing, particularly on literature from the Caribbean, the South Asian diaspora and black Britain.
[11] She has special expertise in the work of Samuel Selvon (for whom she is literary executor),[26] Jean Rhys, Jamaica Kincaid, as well as on women's writing from Africa, the Caribbean and South Asia.
[27][9] Nasta's 2019 publication, the anthology Brave New Words: The Power of Writing Now (Myriad Editions), celebrating 35 years of Wasafiri under her editorship, contains contributions by writers who include Bernardine Evaristo,[28] Romesh Gunesekera, James Kelman,[29] Kei Miller, Blake Morrison,[30] Caryl Phillips, Olumide Popoola,[31] Bina Shah,[32] and Mukoma Wa Ngugi, among others.
By studying immigrants’ experiences, the disillusionment that lies behind many such aspirations is probed.... Brave New Words explores the theme of exclusion at various levels — it articulates not only the consequences of being expelled from countries and territorial affiliations, but from language itself....Personal memoirs ... where writers venture into terra incognita as they delve into the abyss of memory make these essays so rewarding.