Jabari Asim (born August 11, 1962) is an American author, poet, playwright, and professor of writing, literature and publishing at Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts.

[1] He is the former editor-in-chief of The Crisis magazine, a journal of politics, ideas and culture published by the NAACP and founded by historian and social activist W. E. B.

In February 2019 he was named Emerson College's inaugural Elma Lewis '43 Distinguished Fellow in the Social Justice Center.

Harold Augenbraum, executive director of the foundation, "lauded Asim's ability to approach difficult topics with humility.

He is the father of G'Ra Asim, a writer, musician, and assistant professor of Creative Writing at Washington University in St. Louis.

[9] In January 2011, A Taste of Honey was nominated for Outstanding Literary Work – Fiction, 42nd NAACP Image Awards[10] Asim's debut novel, Only the Strong, was published May 12, 2015.

Asim's poetry has been published in African American Writers: A Literary Reader, as well as in the anthologies Role Call: A Generational Anthology of Social & Political Black Literature & Art (eds Tony Medina, Samiya Bashir & Quraysh Ali Lansana) (2002), Beyond The Frontier: African-American Poetry for the 21st Century (ed.

E. Ethelbert Miller), 2002), Herb Boyd's The Harlem Reader: A Celebration of New York's Most Famous Neighborhood from the Renaissance Years to the 21st Century (2003), From the Black Arts Movement to Furious Flower: A Collection of Contemporary African American Poetry (ed.