• Source: Lena Khalaf Tuffaha

Lena Khalaf Tuffaha is a poet, essayist, and translator. She is co-founder of the Institute for Middle East Understanding and the author of five works of poetry: Letters from the Interior (Diode Editions); the 2018 Washington State Book Award winner Water & Salt (Red Hen Press); the 2016 Two Sylvias Press Prize winner Arab in Newsland (Two Sylvias Press), Kaan and Her Sisters (Trio House Press, July 2023), finalist for the 2024 Firecracker Award. Her collection Something About Living, was winner of the 2024 National Book Award for Poetry and the 2022 Akron Prize for Poetry from University of Akron Press. Khalaf Tuffaha is the recipient of a 2019 Washington State Artist Trust Fellowship and the inaugural Poet-In-Residence at Open Books: A Poem Emporium in Seattle, Washington. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Barrow Street, Hayden's Ferry Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, New England Review, TriQuarterly, and the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day series. Khalaf Tuffaha holds a BA in Comparative Literature from the University of Washington and an MFA from the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University. Based in Washington, Khalaf Tuffaha has also served as spokesperson for the Seattle, WA chapter of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee.




Works


Letters from the Interior. Diode Editions. 2019. ISBN 978-1939728333
Water & Salt. Red Hen Press. 2017. ISBN 978-1597090292
Arab in Newsland. Two Sylvias Press. 2017. ISBN 978-0998631493
Kaan and Her Sisters. Trio House Press. 2023. ISBN 978-1949487145
Something About Living. University of Akron Press. 2024. ISBN 978-1629222738




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External links


Official website

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
• Something About Living
• Institute for Middle East Understanding
• Suvendrini Lena
• List of winners of the National Book Award
• Commentary on Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid
• National Book Award for Poetry
• Akron Poetry Prize
• Mizna
• Arab American Book Award