Hala Alyan

Hala Alyan is a Palestinian American writer and clinical psychologist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Guernica and elsewhere. Her poetry collections have won the Arab American Book Award and the Crab Orchard Series. Her debut novel, Salt Houses, was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2017, and won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Town & Country called it “spring’s most powerful novel.” Her newest poetry collection, The Twenty-Ninth Year, was recently published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.