"In Lena Khalaf Tuffaha's Kaan and Her Sisters, language comes alive to guide both speaker and reader through landscapes of loss, beauty, song, and a fierce dream of liberation."--Provided by publisher.
Lena Khalaf Tuffaha is a poet, essayist, and translator. Her work has appeared in the Nation, New England Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Poetry Northwest, and Southern Humanities Review. Her debut collection of poems, Water & Salt, won the 2018 Washington State Book Award and was a finalist for the Arab American Book Award. She lives in Redmond, Washington with her family.
