Safa Hijazi

Safa Hijazi has always loved writing and reading, that’s why she studies it! She loves to write poetry along with writing informational articles. Currently, she is an undergraduate student at the University of Michigan majoring in English and creative writing with a minor in User Experience Design. She was an English summer intern at Michigan News where assisted in planning, researching, and writing news articles. With the knowledge she gained at this internship, she became a skilled article writer. She now works for Michigan News as a media assistant, focusing on graphics and social media writing. Safa’s poetry collection, “Let Us Get Lost in the Valleys” was the first-place winner of the Hopwood program's Keith Taylor Award for Excellence in Poetry by the University of Michigan in 2023. She also won the Seham Elasmar Memorial Scholarship for writing and media from the Islamic Scholarship Fund to support her English education.