Iyesatta Massaquoi Emeli is a Sierra Leonean-American fiction writer and an emergency medicine physician. She won the Richard J. Margolis Award for her short story collection about the impact of war on Sierra Leone’s children. Her work has appeared in midnight & indigo, the New York Times Magazine, The Boston Globe, Eclectica Magazine, Journal of the American Medical Association, the Annals of Emergency Medicine and the Examined Life Journal.
