Is redis in Python asynchronous?

I have the following Python code:

import redis

from app.infra.services.notifications import INotifier
from app.schemas.notification import NotificationMessage
from app.config import settings


REDIS_CLIENT_PUBSUB = redis.StrictRedis(
    host=settings.REDIS_HOST,
    port=settings.REDIS_PORT,
    password=settings.REDIS_PASSWORD,
)

class RedisNotifier(INotifier):
    def __init__(self):
        self.redis_client = REDIS_CLIENT_PUBSUB

    async def send_notification(self, room: str, notification: NotificationMessage) -> None:
        await self.redis_client.publish(room, notification.json())


redis_notifier = RedisNotifier()

I have a web application written in FastAPI that will use redis_notifier to post messages to channels. My question is if it really:
self.redis_client.publish(room, notification.json())
It is asynchronous, that is, my web application will be able to abandon this coroutine and do other things while publish is finished?
I’m a little confused with the redis and aioredis library, I don’t know if my code makes sense or I’m doing something wrong