Safiya Sinclair

Safiya Sinclair was born and raised in Montego Bay, Jamaica. She is the internationally bestselling author of the memoir How to Say Babylon, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, and a finalist for the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction and the Kirkus Prize. How to Say Babylon was included on over 17 Best Book of 2023 year-end 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, The Atlantic’s 10 Best Books of 2023 and was a President Barack Obama’s Favorite Books of 2023. Sinclair is currently a Professor of Creative Writing at Arizona State University.

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Website: safiyasinclair.com