NEWS
The New Yorker
How to Say Babylon excerpt: Revisiting My Rastafari Childhood
New York Times
33 Nonfiction Books to Read this Fall
KIRKUS
How to Say Babylon is a finalist for the Kirkus Prize
Time Magazine
36 Most Anticipated Books of the Fall
The Washington Post
29 books to read this fall
New York Magazine
24 Books We Can't Wait to Read This Fall
Elle Magazine
Round up of favorites and most anticipated books of the year
The San Francisco Chronicle
25 highly anticipated books to put on your radar this fall
Goodreads
Readers' 55 Most Anticipated Books of Fall
The Millions
How to Say Babylon is on The Millions Most Anticipated Books List
Lit Hub
How to Say Babylon is on LitHub's Most Anticipated Books List
Bookpage
Fall 2023 preview: Most anticipated nonfiction
New York Times
Tara Westover chose How to Say Babylon as her next read in the New York Times.
Signature Reads
Cannibal named one of the “12 Essential Books Celebrating Women Writers of the African Diaspora”
Forward Poetry Prize
“Hymen Elegy,” a poem first published in Granta, was chosen as a Highly Commended poem by the 2018 Forward Poetry Prize judges!
PEN Center Literary awards
Cannibal is a finalist for the 2017 PEN Center USA Literary Awards in Poetry!
Phillis Wheatley Book Award
Cannibal is the winner of the 2017 Phillis Wheatley Book Award in Poetry
USC DornsLife
Article and interview about Cannibal, womanhood, the violence of erasure and silences, as well as the Metcalf Award, and the OCM Bocas Prize.
The Adroit Journal
Review of Cannibal “Cannibal is a breeze of fresh sea air which comforts and challenges,”
American Academy of Arts
Safiya wins the Addison M. Metcalf Award in Literature for Cannibal.
OCM Bocas
Cannibal is the winner of the 2017 OCM Bocas Prize in poetry, with the prize judges praising the "strength and spirit" of the collection.
Harvard Review
Safiya has contributed a haiku for Day 46 of Harvard Review's Renga for Obama.
World Literature Today
A review of the “fierce...and incantatory” Cannibal
Dylan Thomas Prize
Cannibal has been longlisted for the 2017 International Dylan Thomas Prize!
American Library Association
Cannibal has been named a Notable Book of the Year by the (ALA) for its annual best-of list.
Waxwing MAGAZINE
Review of Cannibal “This award-winning collection comes to eat you,”
BuzzFeed Books
Names "beautifully rich" Cannibal as one of the Best Literary Debuts of 2016.
Poets & Writers
Safiya has been profiled as one of the top ten debut poets of 2016.
BuzzFeed
Cannibal has been listed as one of the Best Poetry Books of 2016
The New Yorker
lists Cannibal as one of "The Books We Loved in 2016."
PEN
Cannibal has been longlisted for the 2017 PEN Open Book Award.
The Root
Lists Cannibal as one of the "Best Books of 2016 By Black Authors."
The Adroit Journal
Names "magical, hypnotic, and devastating" Cannibal as one of the Best Books of 2016.
The League of Canadian Poets
Lists Cannibal as an "International Favourite" Poetry Book of 2016.
The Millions
A Year in Reading: Aimee Nezhukumatathil names Cannibal as one of her favourite books of 2016.
The Undefeated
Cannibal named as one of the Best Books of 2016.
Book Thug
Kate Sutherland lists "beautiful, complicated, radical" Cannibal as one of her Five Favourite Books of 2016.
Large Up
Cannibal listed as one of "The Five Great Books by Caribbean Authors in 2016."
