Hala Alyan is the author of two poetry collections, Four Cities (Black Lawrence Press, 2015) and Atrium (Three Rooms Press, 2012), which was awarded the 2013 Arab American Book Award in Poetry. Her third collection, Hijra, received the 2015 Open Competition Award from the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry and will be published by Southern Illinois University Press in 2016. Her work has appeared in The Missouri Review, Prairie Schooner, Colorado Review, and others.  

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