Laila Halaby
In addition to more than seventy-five poetry, essay, and short story publications, Laila Halaby is the author of two novels, Once in a Promised Land and West of the Jordan (winner of a PEN Beyond Margins award), a forthcoming memoir, The Weight of Ghosts (Red Hen 2023), and two collections of poetry, why an author writes to a guy holding a fish and my name on his tongue. Laila lives in Tucson where she works as a counselor, museum educator, and creative writing teacher.