Lena Khalaf Tuffaha

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Lena Khalaf Tuffaha is a poet, essayist, and translator. She is co-founder of the Institute for Middle East Understanding and the author of three works of poetry: Letters from the Interior (Diode Editions); the 2018 Washington State Book Award winner Water & Salt (Red Hen Press); and the 2016 Two Sylvias Press Prize winner Arab in Newsland (Two Sylvias Press). [1] Khalaf Tuffaha is the recipient of a 2019 Washington State Artist Trust Fellowship and the inaugural Poet-In-Residence at Open Books: A Poem Emporium in Seattle, Washington. [2] [3] Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Barrow Street, Hayden's Ferry Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, New England Review, TriQuarterly, and the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day series. [4] Khalaf Tuffaha holds a BA in Comparative Literature from the University of Washington and an MFA from the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University. [5] Based in Washington, Khalaf Tuffaha has also served as spokesperson for the Seattle, WA chapter of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. [6]

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  1. ↑ "IMEU Form 990" (PDF). Institute for Middle East Understanding. Institute for Middle East Understanding. Retrieved 2020-05-28.
  2. ↑ "Artist Profile - Lena Tuffaha". Artist Trust. Retrieved 2020-05-28.
  3. ↑ "Introducing Lena Khalaf Tuffaha". Open Books: A Poem Emporium. Retrieved 2020-05-28.
  4. ↑ "Lena Khalaf Tuffaha". Diode Editions. Retrieved 2020-05-28.
  5. ↑ "Bio". Lena Khalaf Tuffaha. Retrieved 2020-05-28.
  6. ↑ "About". Institute for Middle East Understanding. Retrieved 2020-05-28.
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