Safia Elhillo is a Sudanese-American poet, educator, and writer. She is the author of The January Children (University of Nebraska Press, 2017), winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, and co-writer of the play "Hagar Before the Occupation/Hagar After the Occupation" (New York Live Arts, 2018). Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Paris Review, and elsewhere.