Eliamani Ismail

DC/LA/NYC

Education

University of Maryland, May 2024, College Park, MD — M.F.A Creative Writing (Fiction)

Scripps College, May 2020, Claremont, CA — B.A. Media Studies (Area: Film) & Africana Studies (Area: Art) 

Spelman College, December 2018, Atlanta, GA— Exchange Program in Film Studies

Awards/Honors

Aspen Ideas Fellow (2023). Invited to the Aspen Ideas as a Fellow for Writing.

Pushcart Prize Nomination (2022). Short Story: ‘Garfield, 2005’ (SOUTHERN HUMANITIES REVIEW)

Watson Fellowship (2021) Project: Principles of Mercy. Countries: Rwanda, Colombia, Senegal, Mexico, Belgium, South Africa, France, Kenya

Brooklyn Poets (2021) Project: Africa is a Country: Summer Fellow

BRAVE NEW SCHOOLS/Youth Speaks. (2017) Project: Schoolhouse. Winning Finalist

Film

‘Mali, 2020’ (2020) forAfricans.com, Filmmaker
DREAMING WITH CLOSED EYES (2021) Producer, Director of Photography

WATCHMEN (2019) HBO, Production Assistant

Conferences/Lectures

Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, January 2017- Art and Propaganda 

Publications

• ‘Garfeild, 2005’  Southern Humanities Review, 54.4 Winter 2021

• ‘Ohio’  PRISM International, 59.2, Winter 2021.

• ‘Fantasia’  ellipsis… , Volume 56, Spring 2020

• ‘& its still murder’  The Student Life, April 2017

• ‘Inheritance’  Stonecoast Review, #12, Winter 2020

Languages

English, Native

French, Professional

Spanish, Proficient