Hala Alyan

HALA ALYAN is the author of the novel Salt Houses , winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Arab American Book Award and a finalist for the Chautauqua Prize, as well as the novel The Arsonists' City and four award-winning collections of poetry, most recently The Twenty-Ninth Year. Her work has been published by The New Yorker , the Academy of American Poets, Literary Hub, the New York Times Book Review , and Guernica . She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, where she works as a...See more

HALA ALYAN is the author of the novel Salt Houses , winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Arab American Book Award and a finalist for the Chautauqua Prize, as well as the novel The Arsonists' City and four award-winning collections of poetry, most recently The Twenty-Ninth Year. Her work has been published by The New Yorker , the Academy of American Poets, Literary Hub, the New York Times Book Review , and Guernica . She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, where she works as a clinical psychologist. See less