Safia Elhillo

Safia Elhillo
صافية الحلو
Elhillo by Caits Meissner for Jellyfish Treasury
Born (1990-12-16) December 16, 1990 (age 33)
Rockville, Maryland, United States
Alma materNew York University
The New School
OccupationPoet
Websitesafia-mafia.com/tagged/main

Safia Elhillo (Arabic: صافية الحلو; born December 16, 1990) is a Sudanese-American poet known for her written and spoken poetry. Elhillo received a BA degree from the Gallatin School at New York University and an MFA in poetry from The New School. Elhillo has performed all around the world. She has won acclaim for her work and has been the recipient of several prestigious poetry awards.[1] Elhillo has shared the stage with notable poets such as Sonia Sanchez and has taught at Split This Rock[2] and Tin House Summer Workshop.[3] Currently, she is a Wallace Stegner Fellow[4] at Stanford University.

  1. ^ Elhillo, Safia, "Bio", Safia-Mafia website, 2017. Retrieved March 20, 2017.
  2. ^ Elhillo, Safia, "Safia Elhillo-Poetry", As Us Journal, 2017. Retrieved March 19, 2017.
  3. ^ "Summer Workshop". Tin House. Retrieved June 14, 2024.
  4. ^ "Meet the Stegner Fellows | Creative Writing Program". creativewriting.stanford.edu. Retrieved December 7, 2019.