Sakinah Hofler

Sakinah Hofler is a fiction writer, poet, and playwright. Her work has appeared in Kenyon Review Online, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and elsewhere. She has won the Manchester Fiction Prize, the Hurston/Wright Award for College Writers, the Sherwood Anderson Fiction Award, and the Yemassee Poetry Prize. A former chemical engineer for the U.S. Department of Defense, she hails from Newark, New Jersey, and currently lectures in Princeton’s Writing Program.