Eliamani Ismail

Eliamani Ismail is a writer and filmmaker from Washington, D.C., by way of Mali and Tanzania. She holds a B.A. in Film and Africana Studies from Scripps College and an MFA from University of Maryland. Outside of writing, Eliamani works as an educator, editor, and arts organizer. She teaches undergraduate writing at the University of Maryland, and serves as a fiction editor at Lampblack Magazine, a publication dedicated to uplifting Black writers. Her fiction often navigates African dignity, diaspora, and female agency with a strong commitment to anti-colonial perspectives. She has been supported by fellowships from the Aspen Institute, Brooklyn Poets, the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, and Kimbilio for Black Fiction. She lives in Brooklyn and is at work on her first novel.