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Sakinah Hofler is a fiction writer, poet, and playwright. She has won the Hurston/Wright Award for College Writers in Fiction, the Manchester Fiction Prize, the Sherwood Anderson Fiction Award, and the Yemassee Poetry Prize. She has been a recipient of an Edward H. and Mary C. Kingsbury Fellowship, a Charles Phelps Taft Dissertation Fellowship, a Poets & Writers Grant, and a P.E.O. Scholar Award. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Kenyon Review Online, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Mid-American Review, and elsewhere. A former chemical and quality engineer for the United States Department of Defense and hailing from the great city of Newark, NJ, she’s currently a lecturer in Princeton’s Writing Program at Princeton University. She’s at work on her first novel.