Stable (Novel) set for publication in 2027 by Henry Holt & Company
Situated in Newark, NJ, Stable follows a young, Black woman who is trying to escape the world of forced prostitution and make a better life for herself and her daughter.
“Since youth, I’ve been passionate about finding ways to shed light on missing Black girls and women. After mentoring formerly trafficked women, I wanted to create a project that highlighted the hurdles survivors face when trying to matriculate back into society. It’s complicated, it’s messy, and it’s also necessary for us to talk about it.”
Sakinah Hofler is a fiction writer, poet, and playwright. Her work has appeared in Kenyon Review Online, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Mid-American Review, among other literary journals, and her plays have been produced by Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park and the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music. She has won the Yemasee Poetry Prize, the Hurston/Wright Award for College Writers in Fiction, the Manchester Fiction Prize, and the Sherwood Anderson Fiction Award. Her work has received support from the Albert C. Yates Foundation, the Kingsbury Foundation, the Taft Research Center, and the P.E.O. Scholar Award. A TED Speaker and a former chemical engineer for the United States Department of Defense, she’s currently a lecturer in Princeton’s Writing Program.
Visit Sakinah’s website: www.sakinahhofler.com
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