Hala Alyan

Hala Alyan is a Palestinian American poet and clinical psychologist whose work has appeared in numerous journals including the Missouri Review, Prairie Schooner and Columbia Poetry Review. She is the author of Atrium (Three Rooms Press), which was awarded the 2013 Arab American Book Award, and Four Cities, released by Black Lawrence Press. Her latest collection, Hijra (2016), was selected as a winner of the 2015 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry.