This episode featuring Hala Alyan gives us great insight into what it's like being an author and a clinical psychologist to bring together a story that is fragmented and disjointed through her passion of serving people through her words. Hala Alyan tells us all from what living a nomadic life is like and being an immigrant in the States to finding her way to becoming an established individual with her own story that is equally as compelling as her! Expect some personal and heart to heart experiences shared and the vast portrayal of wisdom that makes for great lessons learnt and shared. Episode is out now!
Hala Alyan is the author of Salt Houses, winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Arab American Book Award and a finalist for the Chautauqua Prize, as well as four award-winning collections of poetry, most recently THE Twenty-Ninth Year. In addition to The New Yorker, her work has been published by the Academy of American Poets, LitHub, the New York Times Book Review, and Guernica.