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Lena Khalaf Tuffaha is an
American poet of Palestinian,
Jordanian, and Syrian heritage.
Lena's poems have been
published or are forthcoming in
journals including Lunch Ticket,
Monarch, The Lake for Poetry,
The Taos Journal for International
Poetry and Art, James Franco Review, Mizna, Borderlands: Texas Review and Sukoon. She is
a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee, for her poems "Immigrant" (2015) and "Middle Village"
(2016). Several of her poems have been anthologized; most recently, her poem "Running
Orders," published in Letters to Palestine: American Writers Respond to War and
Occupation, by Verso Press and "Seafaring Nocturne," published in Gaza Unsilenced by Just
World Books. She is an MFA candidate at Pacific Lutheran University's Rainier Writing
Workshop. Her first book of poems, Water & Salt, is forthcoming from Red Hen Press.
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