Ashley Hefnawy

Ashley Hefnawy is an interdisciplinary artist and writer who resides in Brooklyn, NY. Their work spans across music, creative writing, sound art, painting, and community events organizing. For their work as a writer, they go by Ashley, and for all other creative work, they go by Myyuh. They are the co-founder of Haza Party and Haza.fm, a dance party and radio show (monthly on Radio Flouka) dedicated to showcasing talents from Africa and Southwest Asia (and their diasporas), and a resident DJ with Reprieve Party, a sober dance party. As a DJ and sound artist, some of Myyuh's work has appeared on: Vans Channel 66, Afropunk, Google, Radio Flouka, Joia Magazine, Wonderful Radio, and Newtown Radio. As a writer, Ashley’s work has appeared in publications like: The Creative Independent, Catapult, Food52, Beekman 1802, Audible, Epicurious, POCIT, Shine, and others. Ashley is also the author of big habibi energy, a newsletter that creatively explores meditations on the metaphyiscal (or Malakut, as known in Islam) and healing, through creative essays, prose, and fiction. From 2020 until present, she has sent out over 50 watercolor paintings to people around the world, as a way of sharing some joy through color and poetry.