Hala Alyan

Hala Alyan is an award-winning Palestinian American poet, novelist, and clinical psychologist whose work has appeared in numerous journals including the Missouri Review, Prairie Schooner, and Colorado Review. She resides in Brooklyn with her husband.

March 2018

Palestinian Literature

Naomi Shihab Nye Sitti’s Secrets Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers I remember coming across this beautifully written (and illustrated) children’s book when I was...
September 2017

Salt Houses by Hala Alyan

Boston. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2017. 312 pages. For a debut novel, Salt Houses is a sophisticated one with an interesting plot and well-developed characters. It deals with one of the worl...