Samatar Elmi

Samatar Elmi is a poet, PhD candidate and educator. His writing plays in the liminal spaces between racial, socio-cultural and political identity claims. He has been shortlisted for the Venture Award, the Complete Works II, New Generation African Poets and is a graduate of the Young Inscribe Mentoring Program. Poems have appeared in Poetry Review, Magma, Iota, Ink Sweat and Tears, Myths of the Near Future, Scarf, the Echoing Gallery, and the Cadaverine. Samatar’s ‘Portrait of Colossus’ (flipped eye 2021) was selected as the Poetry Book Society (PBS) Summer 2021 Pamphlet Choice.