SAFIYA SINCLAIR was born and raised in Montego Bay, Jamaica. She is the author of the poetry collection Cannibal and the winner of a Whiting Writers’ Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Metcalf Award in Literature, the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature in the poetry category, and the Prairie Schooner Raz-Shumaker Book Prize in poetry. Cannibal was also selected as one of the American Library Association’s Notable Books of the Year, was a finalist for the PEN America Literary Awards and the Seamus Heaney Centre’s Poetry Prize, and was longlisted for the PEN Open Book Award and the Dylan Thomas Prize. How to Say Babylon: A Memoir (37 Ink) is her latest work.