Ask Safiya Sinclair where she’s from, and there’s no one answer. She lives in Phoenix, where she is an associate professor of creative writing at Arizona State University. She joined a recent video ...

Born in a seaside Jamaican village near Montego Bay, Safiya Sinclair grew up in a strict Rastafarian family on the fringe of a hedonistic tourist mecca. By the age of 8, she had heard her father rail ...

In April of this year, towards the close of the annual Bocas Lit Fest in Port of Spain, Trinidad, Safiya Sinclair’s memoir “How to Say Babylon,” which chronicles her struggle to break free of her ...

“Out here I spent my early childhood in a wild state of happiness,” the Jamaican poet Safiya Sinclair writes of growing up by the water, “stretched out under the almond trees fed by brine, relishing ...

Poet Safiya Sinclair reflects on her strict Rastafari upbringing and how she eventually broke free in her new memoir, "How to Say Babylon." When it comes to staying informed in Minnesota, our ...

Reading her audiobook memoir, “How to Say Babylon,” the poet gives voice to her Jamaican roots, her early ambition and the Rastafari father who would have quashed it. By Lauren Christensen Lauren ...

In “How to Say Babylon,” award-winning poet Sayfiya Sinclair recounts her childhood in Jamaica in a strict Rastafarian household and how she eventually broke free of her father’s many rules.