Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, an American writer and translator of Palestinian, Jordanian and Syrian heritage, is the author of the poetry collection Water & Salt (forthcoming from Red Hen Press, 2017). Her poetry has appeared in Lunch Ticket, Sukoon, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, and Broadsided Press. She is an MFA candidate at the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University, and lives in Redmond, Washington.