Ten Questions for Safia Elhillo

“This book really fought me, or I fought it, for the first couple of years.” —Safia Elhillo, author of Girls That Never Die
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“This book really fought me, or I fought it, for the first couple of years.” —Safia Elhillo, author of Girls That Never Die
The author of Southbound and The Parted Earth shares her approach to balancing projects in multiple genres.
The author of I Know You Know Who I Am writes about stashing his surplus sentences and character sketches in an electronic “junk drawer.”
The author of Anodyne envisions a new writing practice inspired by the natural world.
The author of This Is One Way to Dance shares how notes—footnotes, codas, prologues, corrections—figure into her writing process.
The author of The Prettiest Star recommends keeping a novel-dedicated notebook for ideas, research, and informal experiments.