Alison Grifa Ismaili
Senior Instructor
MFA, Louisiana State University
225-578-3125
agrifa1@lsu.edu
237-E Allen Hall
Biography
Alison Grifa Ismaili earned her BA in English at Barnard College, Columbia University and her MFA in Creative Writing at LSU. She has studied, taught, and lived in North and West Africa as well as all over the Americas. Before coming to academia, she worked in the U.S. publishing industry and in emergency operations at the United Nations. Her writing explores issues of migration, transnationalism, and cultural conflict. At LSU, she teaches Writing and Literature.
Area(s) of Interest
Fiction, Narrative Forms, Writing, Film, and English for Speakers of Other Languages