Lena Khalaf Tuffaha is a poet, essayist and translator. She is author of three books of poetry: Something about Living (University of Akron Press, 2024; the87press, 2025), shortlisted for the PEN Heaney Prize 2025, winner of the 2024 US National Book Award for Poetry, and the 2022 Akron Poetry Prize; Kaan & Her Sisters (Trio House Press), finalist for the 2024 Firecracker Award and honourable mention for the 2024 Arab American Book Award; and Water & Salt (Red Hen), winner of the 2018 Washington State Book Award and honourable mention of the 2018 Arab American Book Award. She is also the author of two chapbooks, Arab in Newsland, winner of the 2016 Two Sylvias Prize, and Letters from the Interior (Diode, 2019), finalist for the 2020 Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize.
