Sakinah Hofler is a PhD student and an Alfred C. Yates Fellow at the University of Cincinnati. She has won the Manchester Fiction Prize and the Sherwood Anderson Fiction Award. Her work has appeared in Mid-American Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Philadelphia Stories, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from Florida State University, where she served as fiction editor and assistant online editor for Southeast Review. She also serves as a reader for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. You can find her online at her website or @blackquisition.
