Safia Elhillo

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Photo by Timothy Smith

Safia Elhillo is Sudanese by way of Washington, DC. She is the author of The January Children (University of Nebraska Press, 2017), Girls That Never Die (One World / Random House, 2022), and the novels in verse Home Is Not a Country and Bright Red Fruit (Make Me a World / Random House, 2021/2024). With Fatimah Asghar, she is co-editor of the anthology Halal If You Hear Me (Haymarket, 2019).

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    First Warm Sunday of the Year

    March 2025
    Safia Elhillo
    Photo of Safia Elhillo byMaiwenn Raoult / maiwennraoult.com after Frank O’Harait’s 1 a.m. in los angeles & i am tryingto finish this after putting off all dayfirst to meet mo at the ca…
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    A Memory of Us

    July 15, 2020 Safia Elhillo
    Photo by Dustin Humes on Unsplash Series editor’s note: I’ve always thought of poetry as a sacred ground to think and write about things we wouldn’t normally do. And in the case of S…