Amina Jama is a Somali-British writer. An alumna of Barbican Young Poetry and member of Octavia Poetry Collective, Amina has performed internationally and her work has been published in numerous anthologies. She was Assistant Facilitator for the Roundhouse Poetry Collective at the age of 19 and is now the co-host of BoxedIn. In 2019, Amina curated the installation and exhibition Somalinimo till I dhimo x Dear Ayeeyo which toured at the Roundhouse, Black Cultural Archives and Free Word Centre in London. She has also completed commissions for the BBC, Nationwide, The Queens Gallery, Buckingham Palace and the London Mayor's Office. Her published work includes; 'The Things I Would Tell You' (ed. Sabrina Mahfouz, 2017), and the children's books 'Rising Stars' (2017) and 'Poems Out Loud' (2019). Amina was shortlisted for the Outspoken 2018 Poetry Prize and has a BA in English with Creative Writing at Goldsmiths University. 'A Warning to the House That Holds Me' is her debut collection.

Amina Jama is a Somali-British writer. An alumna of Barbican Young Poetry and member of Octavia Poetry Collective, Amina has performed internationally and her work has been published in numerous anthologies. She was Assistant Facilitator for the Roundhouse Poetry Collective at the age of 19 and is now the co-host of BoxedIn. In 2019, Amina curated the installation and exhibition Somalinimo till I dhimo x Dear Ayeeyo which toured at the Roundhouse, Black Cultural Archives and Free Word Centre in London. She has also completed commissions for the BBC, Nationwide, The Queens Gallery, Buckingham Palace and the London Mayor's Office. Her published work includes; 'The Things I Would Tell You' (ed. Sabrina Mahfouz, 2017), and the children's books 'Rising Stars' (2017) and 'Poems Out Loud' (2019). Amina was shortlisted for the Outspoken 2018 Poetry Prize and has a BA in English with Creative Writing at Goldsmiths University. 'A Warning to the House That Holds Me' is her debut collection.

Amina Jama is a Somali-British writer. An alumna of Barbican Young Poetry and member of Octavia Poetry Collective, Amina has performed internationally and her work has been published in numerous anthologies. She was Assistant Facilitator for the Roundhouse Poetry Collective at the age of 19 and is now the co-host of BoxedIn. In 2019, Amina curated the installation and exhibition Somalinimo till I dhimo x Dear Ayeeyo which toured at the Roundhouse, Black Cultural Archives and Free Word Centre in London. She has also completed commissions for the BBC, Nationwide, The Queens Gallery, Buckingham Palace and the London Mayor's Office. Her published work includes; 'The Things I Would Tell You' (ed. Sabrina Mahfouz, 2017), and the children's books 'Rising Stars' (2017) and 'Poems Out Loud' (2019). Amina was shortlisted for the Outspoken 2018 Poetry Prize and has a BA in English with Creative Writing at Goldsmiths University. 'A Warning to the House That Holds Me' is her debut collection.