About this event
Come spend the evening with Safiya. Learn a little about her, about her spectacular debut poetry collection, 'Cannibal'. Sip tea, coffee or water and perhaps a bite of something sweet...all in good company.
Safiya Safiya Sinclair was born and raised in Montego Bay, Jamaica. She is the author of Cannibal (University of Nebraska Press, 2016), winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry, the Addison M. Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature in Poetry, longlisted for the PEN Open Book Award, the Dylan Thomas Prize, and named one of the American Library Association’s “Notable Books of the Year.”
Sinclair is the recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award, a Pushcart Prize, a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, fellowships from Yaddo, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, as well as the Amy Clampitt Residency Award. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, Kenyon Review, Granta, The Nation, New England Review, Boston Review, TriQuarterly, Oxford American, and elsewhere.
She received her MFA in poetry at the University of Virginia, and is currently a PhD candidate in literature and creative writing at the University of Southern California.
'Cannibal' Winner of a Whiting Writers’ Award Winner of the Addison Metcalf Award in Literature Winner, OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature (Poetry) An American Library Association Notable Book of the Year Longlisted for the 2017 Dylan Thomas Prize Longlisted for the 2017 PEN Open Book Award One of BuzzFeed’s Best Poetry Books of 2016 One of The New Yorker’s “Books We Loved in 2016” A Publishers Weekly “Poetry Top 10” for Fall 2016 One of BuzzFeed Books’ Best Literary Debuts of 2016 A Poets & Writers Top Ten Poetry Debut of 2016 One of The Root’s Best Books of 2016 By Black Authors A Publishers Weekly “Most Anticipated Book of Fall 2016” Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry