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 debut novel, SALT HOUSES, was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2017, and was the winner of the Arab American Book Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Her latest poetry collection, THE TWENTY-NINTH YEAR, was recently published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. She lives in Brooklyn.