Help Bring These Acclaimed Poets to Bainbridge!
SAFIA ELHILLO
Award-winning Poet & Novelist
Sudanese American poet Safia Elhillo is the author of The January Children (University of Nebraska Press, 2017), winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, and an Arab American Book Award. She also won the 2015 Brunel International African Poetry Prize and was listed in Forbes Africa’s 2018 “30 Under 30,” among other honors.
KIMIKO HAHN
New York State Poet 2025 - 2027
Kimiko Hahn is author of eleven collections of poetry, including The Ghost Forest: New & Selected Poems (W.W. Norton, 2024). In 2023, she was named a Chancellor for the Academy of American Poets and received The Poetry Foundation’s Ruth Lilly Lifetime Achievement Award.
JENNY GEORGE
Jenny George is the author of After Image (Copper Canyon Press, 2024) and The Dream of Reason (Copper Canyon Press, 2018) and a winner of the 2015 "Discovery"/Boston Review Poetry Prize. She is the recipient of a Bread Loaf Writers' Conference Fellowship, among others, and lives in Santa Fe, NM, where she runs a foundation for Buddhist-based social justice.
