Dayna Ash
Dayna Ash (she/they) is an intersectional feminist, performing artist, writer, and the founder & Executive Director of Haven for Artists, a cultural feminist organization working at the intersection of art and activism. Dayna is an autodidact academic whose work in the arts is rooted in intersectional and de-colonial queer practices for creating alternative structures and a community-based approach to fighting injustice and oppression.
Her poetry collection and musical album, Merging of the Tide, are expected to be released early in 2026. She was Artist in Residence with the Edinburgh Visual Arts Festival 2023 and 2024, as well as a Cultural Delegate for Momentum in the Edinburgh Festivals Cultural Diplomacy program in 2022. She was selected as the Artist-in-Residence for the Bellagio Artist Residency in Lake Como, Italy, in 2023. Dayna wrote and produced the film Courage, which Malak Mroueh directed. Courage won Best Experimental Film in the Montreal Independent Film Festival in 2022 and in the Berlin Indie Film Festival in 2021.
