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. Her latest novel, The Arsonists' City, was 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 . Her work has been published by The New Yorker , The Academy of American Poets, Literary Hub, The New York Times Book Review , and...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. Her latest novel, The Arsonists' City, was 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 . 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 family, where she works as a clinical psychologist and professor at New York University. See less