She writes in a variety of styles based on her experience as an African Caribbean, growing up in Chapeltown, Leeds, and moving to London at the age of sixteen. She has performed in schools and colleges, libraries, community centres and prisons. Other venues include Hay-on-Wye, Chat’s Palace, Kentish Town Women’s Centre, Union Chapel, Glastonbury Festival and the ICA. Her poems have also appeared on many London buses. Asher works as an additional support tutor at NewVic Sixth Form College in Newham. She has an interest in special needs and has recently completed a postgraduate certificate in dyslexia at University College London.