Yamila Abraham

2012 Bio

Yamila Abraham (Yaoimila) founded the publishing company Yaoi Press in 2004. Over the last eight years she's overseen the publication 50 BL titles including graphic novels, comic books, yaoi novels, and art books. Abraham has successfully licensed Yaoi Press titles into several foreign languages.

Abraham is a prolific writer with over a dozen graphic novel works in print with four different publishers in three languages. She wrote two of Yaoi Press' best selling series: Winter Demon and Maelstrom. Her first scholarly article on the topic of international BL was published in 2010 by McFarland Press. Abraham currently works diligently on numerous illustrated ebooks through Yaoi Press' newest imprint, Yaoi Prose. Abraham has been a speaker or guest of honor at 150 anime fan conventions.