Safia Elhillo is the author of the poetry collection The January Children , which received the the 2016 Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets and a 2018 Arab American Book Award.
She is a 2019-2021 Stegner Fellow at Stanford University..
Safia is a Pushcart Prize nominee, co-winner of the 2015 Brunel International African Poetry Prize, and listed in Forbes Africa\'s 2018 30 Under 30.
Sudanese by way of Washington, DC, she holds an MFA from The New School, a Cave Canem Fellowship, and a 2018 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation.
Safia Elhillo is the author of the poetry collection The January Children , which received the the 2016 Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets and a 2018 Arab American Book Award
