Safiya Sinclair

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 and a finalist for the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction, the Kirkus Prize, and the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature. How to Say Babylon was named one of the New York Times’ 100 Notable Books of the year, a Top 10 Book of 2023 by the Washington Post and The Atlantic, a TIME Magazine Top 10 Nonfiction Book of 2023, a Read with Jenna/TODAY Show Book Club pick, and one of President Barack Obama’s Favorite Books of 2023. It was also named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, NPR, The Guardian, and the Los Angeles Times, among others, and named a Best Audiobook of the Year by Audible and AudioFile. Sinclair is also the author of the poetry collection Cannibal, winner of a Whiting Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Addison Metcalf Award in Literature, the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Poetry, and the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry. She is currently an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Arizona State University.