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Djamila Ibrahim is a Canadian writer. She was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Her family immigrated to Canada in 1990. Ibrahim has worked as an advisor to Immigration Canada.

Ibrahim described how her instructor Zoe Whittall, at at creative writing she took from the University of Toronto's Continuing Education department forwarded her stories to her own editor at the House of Anansi, Janice Zawerbny.

Her collection Things Are Good Now was published in 2018. The nine stories explore the migrant experience. The Globe and Mail called the collection "...essential fiction for right now," because many of the stories are about refugees, and Immigration Canada projects admitting a greater number of refugees.

According to the Toronto Star "Ibrahim writes with intensity and empathy, drawing believably complex characters who are understandably torn between bleak alternatives."

Things Are Good Now was shortlisted for the 2019 Danuta Gleed Literary Award.