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Safiya Sinclair was born and raised in Montego Bay, Jamaica. She is the author of the critically acclaimed memoir How to Say Babylon which was a winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, and was a finalist for the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction and the Kirkus Prize. How to Say Babylon was named a Best Book of the Year by numerous publications, individuals, and organizations, such as President Barack Obama, The Washington Post, The New Yorker, Time, NPR, and others. Plus, it was a Read With Jenna Today Show Book Club pick. The audiobook of How to Say Babylon also received recognition and was named a Best Audiobook of the Year by Audible and AudioFile magazine. Sinclair is also the author of the poetry collection Cannibal, winner of a Whiting Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Metcalf Award, the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Poetry, the Phillis Wheatley Book Award, and the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry. Cannibal was a finalist for the PEN Center USA Literary Award and the Seamus Heaney First Book Award in the UK, and was longlisted for the PEN Open Book Award and the Dylan Thomas Prize.

Sinclair’s other honors include a Pushcart Prize, fellowships from the Poetry Foundation, Civitella Ranieri Foundation, the Elizabeth George Foundation, MacDowell, Yaddo, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. She is currently a Professor of Creative Writing at Arizona State University.

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