Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa Author

Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa is a British born Barbadian raised poet, dancer and choreographer. Her interdisciplinary art, braids dance and poetry on the page and stage. Safiya is currently a PhD student in Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds. Safiya is an Obsidian Foundation fellow and an Apples & Snakes/ Jerwood Arts Poetry in Performance recipient. In 2020 Safiya won the Culture Recordings New Voice in Poetry Prize and was shortlisted for the Out-Spoken Page Poetry Prize and Creative Future Writer’s Award. In 2022 she was awarded third place in The London Magazine Poetry Prize. Safiya is also a national and international spoken word champion. Her work has appeared in a variety of journals including The Caribbean Writer, Poetry Review, Poetry London, and Wasafiri. ‘Cane, Corn & Gully’ is Safiya’s first poetry collection.