Lena Khalaf Tuffaha is a poet, essayist and translator. She is the author of Water & Salt (Red Hen), which won the 2018 Washington State Book Award, Kaan & Her Sisters (Trio House Press), and Something About Living (Akron University Press). Her writing has been published in journals including Los Angeles Review of Books, Michigan Quarterly Review, the Nation, and Poets.org and
This interview was recorded in the summer of 2023, and has been delayed for a series of accidental and unforeseen reasons. We thank TriQuarterly for their patience, and feel the need to add a disclaimer about this timing, given the past 8 months of genocidal escalation in Gaza committed by the Zionist entity. The official death counts exceed 35,000, but due to the sheer