Hala Alyan

Hala Alyan is the author of the novels *Salt Houses*—winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Arab American Book Award, and a finalist for the Chautauqua Prize—and *The Arsonists’ City*, a finalist for the Aspen Words Literary Prize. She is also the author of five highly acclaimed collections of poetry, including *The Twenty-Ninth Year* and *The Moon That Turns You Back*. Her work has been published by *The New Yorker,* The Academy of American Poets, *The New York Times*, The Guardian, and Guernica. Her debut memoir, *I’ll Tell You When I’m Home*, was recently published by Simon & Schuster. She lives in Brooklyn with her family, where she works as a clinical psychologist and professor at New York University.