Safiya Sinclair

Poet & Writer, National Book Critics Circle Award Winner

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Safiya Sinclair Biography

Safiya Sinclair was born and raised in Montego Bay, Jamaica. She is the author of the memoir "How to Say Babylon," winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, 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," which tells the story of her struggle to break free from her rigid Rastafarian upbringing, was included on over 17 Best Book of 2023 lists, including the New York Times’ 100 Notable Books of the year, the Washington Post Top 10 Books of 2023, TIME Magazine’s Top 10 Nonfiction Books of 2023, and The Atlantic’s 10 Best Books of 2023. It was a Read with Jenna/TODAY Show Book Club pick and named one of President Barack Obama’s Favorite Books of 2023. "How to Say Babylon" was also named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, NPR, The Guardian, the Los Angeles Times, Vulture, Harper’s Bazaar, and Barnes & Noble, among others, and was an ALA Notable Book of the Year. The audiobook of "How to Say Babylon" 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 selected as one of the American Library Association’s Notable Books of the Year, and 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. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Time Magazine, Harper’s Bazaar, Granta, The Nation, and elsewhere.

She earned an MFA in poetry at the University of Virginia and a PhD in literature and creative writing at the University of Southern California. She is currently a Professor of Creative Writing at Arizona State University.

Safiya Sinclair Videos

  • Safiya Sinclair - NBC/"Today"
    Author Safiya Sinclair joins TODAY to talk about her memoir “How to Say Babylon.”
  • Safiya Sinclair - Simon & Schuster Books
    Safiya Sinclair talks about how her mother imparted a love of poetry onto her thereby charting the course of her life.
  • Safiya Sinclair - USC Dornsife
    Safiya Sinclair discusses her award-winning book of poetry.

Safiya Sinclair Books

  • How to Say Babylon
    How to Say Babylon
  • Cannibal (The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry)
    Cannibal (The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry)
  • Catacombs
    Catacombs

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