Writer. Teacher. Presenter. Learner.
Aaliyah Bilal is a fiction and nonfiction writer, focusing on the Black American Muslim experience and stories that connect Chinese and Afro-Diasporic peoples.
For inquiries about speaking engagements please contact Emily Varga at emily.varga@simonandschuster.com
Publications and Appearances
Fiction
Temple Folk, Simon and Schuster, 2023.
Woman in Niqab, The Rumpus, 2016.
Nonfiction
Cloud Country: A Graphic Memoir (Forthcoming)
In Tanzania. Michigan Quarterly Review Online, Autumn, 2020.
On Soul. Michigan Quarterly Review Online, Autumn, 2020.
Face Like a Watermelon Seed: Black Women and Chinese Beauty Standards. Michigan Quarterly Review Online, Autumn 2020.
Easterly: Notes from a Black Life in East Asia. Michigan Quarterly Review, Winter 2020.
Searching for a Safe Place: China, Resistance and the Black Imagination. June, 2015, Ummah Wide.
The Million-Man March: A Black Muslim Feminist Response. October, 2015, Ummah Wide.
Appearances
Solace (2021) Writer, Producer, Director.
Known Rivers (2020) Series Producer, Writer and Host.
Sisters Outside (2019) Writer, Producer, Voice Over Artist.
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