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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. Sakinah received a 2026 Individual Artist Fellowship Award from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Kenyon Review Online, Georgia Review, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, 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. Her debut novel, Stable (2027), is forthcoming from Henry Holt & Company.