About the Author

Safiya Sinclair, an acclaimed Jamaican poet and memoirist, is the National Book Critics Circle Award winner for How to Say Babylon. This powerful memoir about breaking free from a strict religious upbringing to find her own voice was a New York Times Notable Book, a TIME Top 10 Nonfiction selection, and featured on Barack Obama’s reading list. Sinclair is also the author of the award-winning poetry collection Cannibal and has received such prestigious honors as the Guggenheim Fellowship. She is an associate professor of creative writing at Arizona State University.