Joining the spring 2023 Lang Craft Talks is special guest Safia Elhillo, who will discuss their book Girls That Never Die: Poems, Intimate poems that explore feminine shame, violence and liberation.

Sudanese by way of D.C., Safia Elhillo is the author of Girls That Never Die, The January Children and Home Is Not a Country, and co-editor of the anthology Halal If You Hear Me. Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, the Arab American Book Award, and the Brunel International African Poetry Prize, she is also the recipient of a Cave Canem Fellowship, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, and a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from The Poetry Foundation. Her work has appeared in POETRY magazine, The Atlantic, and The Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-day series, among others.

Lang hosts a series of weekly dynamic and interactive lessons in the craft of writing. Each week features a different writer including Lang faculty, alumni and special guest writers. These talks are popular amongst Lang students  faculty, staff, and the general public.

 
Visit the Lang Craft Talks Hub for the full line-up of writers this spring!