Hala Alyan, the acclaimed Palestinian-American poet, novelist, and clinical psychologist, was recently named a finalist for ...

Through fragments of history, memory, grief and hope, author and psychologist Hala Alyan braids together the story of her life — and the start of another. In I'll Tell You When I'm Home, Alyan writes ...

In “I’ll Tell You When I’m Home,” the Palestinian American writer Hala Alyan draws on her life experiences and her family’s multiple displacements across generations. Hala Alyan, a Palestinian ...

Geoff Bennett: Hala Alyan is an award-winning poet, author, and clinical psychologist. She was born in Illinois, but, growing up, spent time in several other states, as well as in Kuwait and Lebanon.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... "Salt Houses," by Hala Alyan. Places and people from the past reverberate through each character in “Salt Houses,” poet Hala Alyan’s debut novel about a ...

For poet Hala Alyan, year 29 was one of necessary endings -- saying goodbye to her 20s, her time as a student, her life as a single woman -- and big beginnings -- a new home, marriage to her husband.