Writer

Jameelah Lang received her B.A. in English Literature and her M.F.A. in Creative Writing (Fiction), both from the University of Kansas. In Lawrence, Jameelah co-founded the Bathtub Kansas Writers' Collective, an initiative aimed at creating a more integral relationship between creative writing and community.  Jameelah also served as the year-long Writer-in-Residence at HUB-BUB, a non-profit, grassroots arts organization based out of Spartanburg, SC.  At the University of Houston, Jameelah is a Ph.D. candidate in Nonfiction/Fiction and has received an Inprint Fellowship, a Teaching Fellowship, and a Mitchell Center Fellowship.  She is a Nonfiction Editor for Gulf Coast Magazine and has taught with Writers in the Schools since 2010.