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Safiya Sinclair (born 1984, Montego Bay, Jamaica) 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.
Safiya Sinclair is a Jamaican poet and associate professor of creative writing at Arizona State University. Her debut collection, Cannibal, won several prizes and was a finalist for the PEN Open Book Award and the Dylan Thomas Prize.
Safiya Sinclair is a Jamaican poet and memoirist who won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Whiting Award. Her books include How to Say Babylon, a best-selling and critically acclaimed memoir of her childhood, and Cannibal, a collection of poems exploring identity and culture.
Safiya Sinclair writes strange, mythological, gorgeously elaborate lyric poems, with a diction that is both arcane and contemporary.
Nov 2, 2023 · In this personal essay, Safiya Sinclair explores how she let go of her Rastafarian roots and found herself.
Safiya Sinclair is the author of Cannibal (University of Nebraska Press, 2016), winner of the 2015 Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry.
Oct 4, 2023 · Poet Safiya Sinclair grew up in Montego Bay, Jamaica, in a devout Rastafari family. Her father, a reggae singer, ruled the home, dictating what to eat, how to dress and who she could or couldn't...
