Michaeljulius Y. Idani is an Atlanta-based writer of fictions, usher at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church (please consider supporting their building fund!), and coordinator of the Black-ish Book Club. He was a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Lecturer at the University of Sierra Leone, Fourah Bay College. Prior to that, he was the Provost Postgraduate Visiting Writer in Fiction and a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Iowa, where he earned his MFA in Creative Writing from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
He has supported and created initiatives to increase access to creative opportunities such as the MFA App Review, the MFA Seminars, Craft & Conversation, Liloquy, the Be Journal of Creative Expression, and the Writing Project at the DeKalb County Regional Youth Detention Center.
His work has been supported by organizations such as the Georgia Writers Association, Kimbilio, Kweli, Tin House, Hambidge, the Fine Arts Work Center, the Hurston/Wright Foundation, the de Groot Foundation, Voices of Our Nation Arts Foundation, Jnane Tamsna, the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP), and the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity.
He is a life member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Incorporated and the Toni Morrison Society.
Photo Credit: Logan Lynette Burroughs
