Hala Alyan

Hala Alyan is a Palestinian-American writer, poet and clinical psychologist whose work moves between fiction, poetry and memoir. She is the author of the novels Salt Houses (2017) and The Arsonists' City (2021), the memoir I'll Tell You When I'm Home (2025), and the poetry collection Hijra. Her work has been recognized with the Arab American Book Award in 2013 and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize in 2018.