Safiya Sinclair is an award-winning poet and author of Cannibal. Born and raised in Montego Bay, Jamaica, Sinclair’s poems are deeply engaged with womanhood, with exile (exile from the homeland, from the prevailing culture, from one’s own body) and with reclaiming a place in the world. Her forthcoming memoir, How to Say Babylon, will be published by Simon & Schuster. She received her MFA in poetry at the University of Virginia, and is currently a PhD candidate in literature and creative writing at the University of Southern California.