Kalie Kamara was selected as one of Woke Africa's Choice: 21 Best African Writers of the New Generation.
"Yalie Kamara is a Sierra Leonean-American and native of Oakland, California. She is the author of the poetry collections When The Living Sing (Ledge Mule Press, 2017) and Brief Biography of My Name (Akashic Books, 2018). Her poem, “I Ask My Brother to Write About Oakland, and He Describe His Room,” was shortlisted for the 2017 Brittle Paper Award for Poetry. Her poetry and fiction have appeared or are forthcoming in Vinyl Poetry and Prose, Puerto del Sol, The Blueshift Journal, Pop-Up Magazine, and Amazon: Day One. She is a Callaloo Fellow, a 2017 National Book Critics Circle Emerging Critics Fellow, and was a finalist for the 2017 Brunel International African Poetry Prize."
