Safiya Sinclair is a distinguished Jamaican poet and memoirist celebrated for her vibrant and evocative works. She grew up in the coastal city of Montego Bay, Jamaica, immersed in a rich cultural heritage that has deeply influenced her writing. Sinclair's literary debut came with her poetry collection, Cannibal, which swept the literary world by storm and captured several prestigious awards. These accolades include a Whiting Award for poetry in 2016 and the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature for poetry in 2017.

Her poetry is known for its powerful themes and has been featured in esteemed publications such as Poetry, the Kenyon Review, Boston Review, Gulf Coast, the Gettysburg Review, Prairie Schooner, and more. Educated at the University of Virginia, where she earned her MFA in poetry, Sinclair further honed her craft and scholarship, becoming a Dornsife Doctoral Fellow at the University of Southern California.

Currently, Sinclair imparts her knowledge and passion for the written word as an associate professor of creative writing at Arizona State University. Her achievements in poetry have been recognized with the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, and a Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship, marking her as one of the leading voices in contemporary poetry.