Safia Elhilo - Home is Not a Country

Safia 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 MA 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. Elhillo has shared the stage with notable poets such as Sonia Sanchez and has taught at Split This Rock. Currently, she is a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University
Her poems have appeared in many publications, including Poetry, Callaloo, and the Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-day series, among others, and in anthologies including The Break Beat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip•Hop, Women of Resistance: Poems for a New Feminism, and New Daughters of Africa. Elhillo has shared her work on platforms such as TED NewYork, Under Armour's Unlike Any campaign, the South African State Theatre, the New Amsterdam Theatre on Broadway, and TV1's Verses & Flow. Elhillo has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize.