About the Author

Safiya Sinclair was born and raised in Montego Bay, Jamaica. She is the author of Cannibal, winner of a Whiting Writers’ Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Metcalf Award in Literature, the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Poetry, and the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry. Cannibal was selected as one of the American Library Association’s Notable Books of the Year, was a finalist for the PEN Center USA Literary Award and the Seamus Heaney First Book Award in the UK, and was longlisted for the PEN Open Book Award and the Dylan Thomas Prize. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, The Nation, Poetry and elsewhere. She is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Arizona State University.

Reviews

‘An electrifying memoir’ OBSERVER ‘A story about hope, imagination and resilience’ GUARDIAN 'Vivid and empowering' GILLIAN ANDERSON ‘Heart-stoppingly gripping’ BERNARDINE EVARISTO ‘Dazzling’ TARA WESTOVER ‘Glimmering … laced with poetic voice’ TIME ‘Clear-eyed and courageous’ GUARDIAN ‘A breathless, scorching memoir’ NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW ‘Electrifying’ SPECTATOR ‘Lushly observed’ WASHINGTON POST ‘Stirring' ELLE ‘To read it is to believe that words can save’ MARLON JAMES ‘Unforgettable, mesmerising, heartbreaking and heartwarming' ELIF SHAFAK ‘Powerful … moving’ EVENING STANDARD ‘Sinclair's lush, lyrical language makes everything feel alive’ RAVEN LEILANI ‘A memoir of liberation’ IRISH TIMES ‘Stunningly written’ iNEWS ‘An instant contemporary Caribbean classic’ MONIQUE ROFFEY ‘Atmospheric and completely absorbing’ DIANA EVANS ‘Essential’ JESMYN WARD ‘Gut-wrenching, soul-stirring, electrifying’ NICOLE DENNIS-BENN ‘Immersive, imagistic, honest’ RAYMOND ANTROBUS ‘Destined to become a feminist classic’ LISA ALLEN-AGOSTINI ‘Heart-warming, tender and fierce’ LILY DUNN