Elizabeth L.A. Kamara grew up in the east end of Freetown and attended the Holy Trinity Primary School and Annie Walsh Memorial School in Freetown. She is an educator, writer and poet. Kamara is the Former Head of English Unit, Department of Language Studies at Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone and lecturer of Literature in English in the aforementioned department. She has published three collections of poems and some of her poems have been translated into Spanish and Greek. She has contributed to national and international publications including, African Literature Today, Leoneanthology, In the Belly of the Lion and Revista Prometheo.
She is among the handful of Sierra Leonean women who have published poetry collections and has consistently supported other writers by writing introductions, forewords and endorsements for them.
Kamara is a member of the African Literature Association, Sierra Leone Writers Guild, Conservation Society of Sierra Leone and Founder of the Poetry Reading Club – Fourah Bay College. Academic Staff Association, University of Sierra Leone recently honoured her with the award of Lecturer of the Year for FBC. She is married with two lovely sons. Her joy is her family.