Hala Alyan has written two novels, "The Arsonists’ City" (2020) and "Salt Houses" (2016), which won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Arab American Book Award. She has also published five books of poetry, most recently "The Moon That Turns You Back" (2024). Her debut memoir, "I’ll Tell You When I’m Home" (2025), was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and won the GLCA New Writers Award for Nonfiction, whose judges wrote, "Alyan uses fragments and myth to wend her way through a personal narrative that is inextricable from family and global tales to uniquely reveal a riveting, deeply emotional process of discovery for both the narrator and the reader." Her writing has been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Guardian and elsewhere.
Alyan works as a clinical psychologist and professor at New York University.
Join us on Nov. 10 at 4:30 p.m. in the Community Foundation Theater, located in Gund Gallery.