Safia Elhillo

Also known as

Safia Elhilloصافية الحلو‎الحلو، صافيةElhillo, Safia 1990-Elhillo, Safia, 19..-....

Safia Elhillo is the author of The January Children, recipient of the 2016 Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets. Sudanese by way of Washington, DC, she is a 2016 Pushcart Prize nomine, co-winner of the 2015 Brunel International African Poetry Prize, and listed in Forbes Africa’s 2018 “30 Under 30.” Her fellowships and residencies include Cave Canem, The Conversation, and SPACE on Ryder Farm. Her work appears in POETRY Magazine, Callaloo, and The Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-day series, among others, and in anthologies including The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop and Women of Resistance: Poems for a New Feminism.-Haymarket Books

Born 1990-02-01

Identifiers

  • Open LibraryOL7615579A
  • VIAF105146461554227731538
  • WikidataQ29913403
  • ISNI0000000464340864
  • Goodreads6870010

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  • Poetry (poetic works by one author) (1)
  • African poetry (english) (1)
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  • Sudan (1)

Books by Safia Elhillo

Total count: 7