Wikipedia's first sentence called it “essayist”. Today it says “palestinian american poet”.
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The opening as it read in 2025
Lena Khalaf Tuffaha is a poet, essayist, and translator. She is co-founder of the Institute for Middle East Understanding and the author of five works of poetry: Letters from the Interior (Diode Editions); the 2018 Washington State Book Award winner Water & Salt ( Red Hen Press ); the 2016 Two Sylvias Press Prize winner Arab in Newsland (Two Sylvias Press), Kaan and Her Sisters (Trio House Press, July 2023), finalist for the 2024 Firecracker Award. Her collection Something About Living , was winner of the 2024 National Book Award for Poetry and the 2022 Akron Prize for Poetry from University of Akron Press . 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. 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 . Based in Washington, Khalaf Tuffaha has also served as spokesperson for the Seattle chapter of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee . Institute for Middle East Understanding . The New York Times . Open Books: A Poem Emporium . Institute for Middle East Understanding .
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The opening as it stood in 2020
Lena Khalaf Tuffaha is an essayist, and translator. She is co-founder and treasurer 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). Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Barrow Street (magazine) , Hayden's Ferry Review , Michigan Quarterly Review , New England Review , TriQuarterly , and the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day series. 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 . Based in Washington, Khalaf Tuffaha has also served as spokesperson for the Seattle, WA chapter of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee . Institute for Middle East Understanding . Institute for Middle East Understanding . Open Books: A Poem Emporium . Institute for Middle East Understanding .
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American poet 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). 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. 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 . Based in Washington, Khalaf Tuffaha has also served as spokesperson for the Seattle, WA chapter of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee . Institute for Middle East Understanding . Institute for Middle East Understanding . Open Books: A Poem Emporium . Institute for Middle East Understanding .
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essayist
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palestinian american poet
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