Biography
Eliamani Ismail is writer and filmmaker from Washington D.C. via Mali and Tanzania.
Finding writing in her teens, Eliamani was a youth poet with the DC Youth Slam Team. She has preformed at multiple venues including the Kennedy Center and the National Planned Parenthood Festival.
After earning a B.A. in Film and Africana from Scripps College in 2020, Eliamani was named a 2021 T.J. Watson Scholar where she traveled to 10 countries researching various writing traditions and their role in creating national identity and non-punitive criminal justice norms.
Eliamani is a Pan-Africanist dedicated to telling stories from and about the global African world.
She is currently a Fiction MFA Candidate at The University Of Maryland where she teaches in the undergraduate department. Additionally, Eliamani is a fiction editor at Lampblack Magazine.