Anthologies
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Body Talk | 2020 | Buy |
Standalone Novels
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| The Stars and the Blackness Between Them | 2019 | Buy |
Junauda Petrus (also known as Junauda Petrus-Nasah) is a Minneapolis-based writer, performer, and aerial artist of Afro-Caribbean descent. Her parents are from Trinidad and the US Virgin Islands, and that Caribbean heritage is central to her writing. She co-founded Free Black Dirt, a performance and theater collective, and was named Minneapolis poet laureate in 2025.
Her debut novel, The Stars and the Blackness Between Them (2019), follows two Black teenage girls who fall in love while grappling with identity, spirituality, and mortality. The book won a Coretta Scott King Honor Award in 2020. She also contributed to the Body Talk anthology, writing about queer self-love and body image.