Lena Khalaf Tuffaha

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.