Imali J. Abala is a Kenyan woman writer and poet. Currently, she is a professor at Ohio Dominican University and Editor-in-Chief of Kenya Studies Review. Some of her published books include: The Dreamer, Haughty Boys of Ngoroke, Moody Mood and Red Round Ball, Drum Bits of Terror, A Fallen Citadel (a poetry collection), Jahenda, the Teenage Mother, The Disinherited and Move on, Trufosa. She served as an editor for In the Murk of Life, a poetry collection about contemporary Kenyan life.