https://www.eliamani.com/writing daily 0.75 2025-08-16 https://www.eliamani.com/film daily 0.75 2026-04-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604ea59cbaa6172159790a36/3b5bab8b-352e-4ca5-9ca7-fade74f629e8/Chocolate.png https://www.eliamani.com/bio daily 0.75 2025-08-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604ea59cbaa6172159790a36/c4794e57-f28f-4da1-a022-178efd6ad7c8/Headshot.jpeg bio - Biography Eliamani Ismail is a writer and filmmaker from Washington, D.C., via Mali and Tanzania. A former youth poet with the DC Youth Slam Team, she has performed at venues including the Kennedy Center and Planned Parenthood’s National Conference. She holds a BA in Africana Studies from Scripps College and a MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Maryland. Eliamani was named a T.J. Watson Fellow, traveling to 10 countries to study storytelling traditions and their relationship to national identity and non-punitive justice. Her writing has been supported by fellowships from the Aspen Institute, Kimbilio for Black Fiction, Brooklyn Poets, and the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. A Pan-Africanist committed to telling stories from across the global African world, Eliamani teaches at Fordham University and serves as a fiction editor for Lampblack Magazine. She lives in Brooklyn where she is at work on her first novel. https://www.eliamani.com/home daily 1.0 2025-07-23 https://www.eliamani.com/preformances daily 0.75 2023-12-22 https://www.eliamani.com/interviews-1 daily 0.75 2025-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1607694583486-2PQT0LQ193RL7MCB6DX4/20140228_Trade+151_0046.jpg interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1607694644871-IC85FNH781UNZSZEGHDR/Aro+Ha_0428.jpg interviews https://www.eliamani.com/contact daily 0.75 2025-07-23