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Safia Elhillo, author portrait
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Safia Elhillo

Safia Elhillo received the Michael L. Printz Honor for Bright Red Fruit and is a renowned poet and author. Her debut YA novel in verse, Home Is Not a Country, was longlisted for the National Book Award and received a Coretta Scott King Author Honor and an Arab American Book Award. Sudanese by way of Washington, DC, Safia is a Pushcart Prize nominee, co-winner of the 2015 Brunel International African Poetry Prize, and listed in Forbes Africa’s 2018 “30 Under 30.” She lives in Los Angeles.
Bright Red Fruit
Girls That Never Die
Home Is Not a Country

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Bright Red Fruit
Girls That Never Die
Home Is Not a Country

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