Khadijah Ali-Coleman

About the Artist

Khadijah Z. Ali-Coleman, Ed.D. is the 2023 Poet Laureate of Prince George's County, MD. Dr. Ali-Coleman is a cultural curator, community organizer, theatre producer, director, nationally recognized speaker, and multi-genre writer. She is author of the children's book Mariah's Maracas and co-editor of the book Homeschooling Black Children in the US: Theory, Practice and Popular Culture. She is editor of the Liberated Muse anthology book series and has creative work and scholary writings featured in several books.  Her plays have been staged, workshopped and read on dozens of stages.  She is founder of Liberated Muse Arts Group and performs as the artist, Khadijah Moon. Khadijah Ali-Coleman is a member of the Baltimore-based writing group, Zora's Den, as well as a professional member of national organization, The Dramatists Guild, The  Recording Academy (home of the GRAMMY awards) and the Association of African American Museums. She was a Theater Alliance Quadrant Playwright from 2019-2021, a 2019 Fulbright-Hays scholar, a 2015 Maryland State Arts Council Independent Artist awardee and a 2012 Prince George’s County Social Innovation Fund Forty Under 40 awardee.