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Safiya Sinclair

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Safiya Sinclair is a Jamaican poet and memoirist, author of the award-winning collection Cannibal, and associate professor of creative writing at Arizona State University.

Biography

Safiya Sinclair was born in 1984 in Montego Bay, Jamaica. She is a Jamaican poet and memoirist.

Her debut poetry collection, Cannibal, won several awards, including a Whiting Award for poetry in 2016 and the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature for poetry in 2017. Cannibal served as her debut collection and received multiple honors in those years.

She is currently an associate professor of creative writing at Arizona State University. She is also the author of How to Say Babylon (2023).

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