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Hala Alyan

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  • Country of residence: United States
  • Gender: Female
  • Born in: 1986
  • Age: 35
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Hala Alyan (born July 27, 1986) is a Palestinian-American writer and clinical psychologist who specializes in trauma, addiction, and cross-cultural behavior. Her writings and poetry cover aspects of identity and the effects of displacement, particularly within the Palestinian diaspora. Alyan is best known for her first novel, the 2017 work Salt Houses.


Palestinian American poet and clinical psychologist Hala Alyan was born in Carbondale, Illinois, and grew up in Kuwait, Oklahoma, Texas, Maine, and Lebanon. She earned a BA from the American University of Beirut and an MA from Columbia University. While completing her doctorate in clinical psychology from Rutgers University, she specialized in trauma and addiction work with various populations.


Alyan's poetry collections include Atrium (2012), winner of the 2013 Arab American Book Award in Poetry; Four Cities (2015); Hijra (Southern Illinois University Press, 2016), winner of the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry; and The Twenty-Ninth Year (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019). She is the author of the novel Salt Houses (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017). She has been awarded a Lannan Foundation fellowship and lives in Manhattan.

 

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