Rafeif Ismail is an award-winning emerging multilingual storyteller and editor based in Boorloo, WA (colonially known as Perth). Rafeif’s work has been published in anthologies and literary magazines across Australia and internationally, with a debut novel forthcoming. Deeply committed to creating diverse works, spaces and ethical storytelling, Rafeif is the current managing director of Djed Press, co-editor of Unlimited Futures: Speculative, Visionary Blak+Black Fiction (Fremantle Press & Djed Press, 2022) and a participant in the 2020 AFTRS National Talent Camp and 2021 Equity Foundation Diversity Showcase. In 2022, Rafeif was shortlisted for SBS Emerging Writers Incubator Program (WA) and received the 2022 Access Arts Australia National Leadership Award. Rafeif learned English by reading comic books and relearned her first language (Sudanese Arabic) through poetry and music. Rafeif saw Black Panther about 28 times in cinema and can stand with the best of them on Doctor Who and Star Trek trivia.
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