Nailah Folami Imoja (née Charmaine Gill), winner of Barbados’s Frank Collymore Literary Endowment Competition 2024 and Bermuda’s Writer in Residence 2025, is a Barbadian/British novelist, poet, spoken word artist, and educator. A teacher by day, she relies on more than three decades of teaching experience (from kindergarten teacher to university tutor) and a keen sense of humour to survive each day in the classroom.
As poet, novelist, journalist, and editor, Nailah has contributed significantly to the Barbadian litscape and aims to entertain and enlighten with her work. She is author of numerous novellas including Colourblind, To Protect & Serve and Fantasy Fulfilled which are available via smashwords.com. Her greatest opus thus far is her young adult daughter.