Lena Khalaf Tuffaha is a poet, essayist and translator. She is the author of Water & Salt (Red Hen), which won the 2018 Washington State Book Award, Kaan & Her Sisters (Trio House Press), and Something About Living (Akron University Press). Her writing has been published in journals including Los Angeles Review of Books, Michigan Quarterly Review, the Nation, and Poets.org and in anthologies including The Long Devotion, Alone Together, and We Call to the Eye and the Night. She was the translator and curator of the 2022 series “Poems from Palestine” at the Baffler magazine. For more about her work, visit www.lenakhalaftuffaha.com.