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Safia Elhillo
Safia Elhillo is the author of
The January Children
,
Girls That Never Die
, and the novel in verse
Home Is Not a Country
. She is a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and lives in Oakland.
Laura El-Tantawy
The Cairo Apartments
A poem for Sunday
Safia Elhillo
January 10, 2021