Lena Khalaf Tuffaha is a poet, essayist, and translator. Kaan and Her Sisters, published by Trio House Press in 2023, was a finalist for the 20204 CLMP Firecracker Award and a finalist for the 2024 Arab-American Book Award. Tuffaha is the author of three books of poetry, Water & Salt (Red Hen Press), winner of the 2018 Washington State Book Award for Poetry, Kaan and Her Sisters (Trio House Press, July 2023), and Something About Living, winner of the 2022 Akron Prize for Poetry, and long-listed for the 2024 National Book Award. She lives in Washington.

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