Safiya Sinclair '10 and James Allen Hall MFA '00

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Safiya Sinclair is a graduate of Bennington College and the MFA Program at the University of Virginia, and presently a PhD candidate at the University of Southern California. Her poetry collection, Cannibal (University of Nebraska Press, 2016), won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Poetry, Kenyon Review, Boston Review, the Iowa Review, Bennington Review, and elsewhere. Her writing has been honored with a Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship, an Amy Clampitt Residency Award, and a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation.

James Allen Hall is the author of the poetry collection Now You're the Enemy (University of Arkansas Press), which received awards from the Lambda Literary Foundation, the Texas Institute of Letters, and the Fellowship of Southern Writers. His lyric essay collection I Liked You Better Before I Knew You So Well won the Cleveland State University Poetry Center’s Essay Award and is forthcoming in 2017. His poetry has appeared in A Public Space, Bennington Review, Boston Review, and The Best American Poetry 2012. The recipient of fellowships from the NEA and the New York Foundation for the Arts, he teaches at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland.