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Laila Halaby

Laila Halaby was born in Beirut, Lebanon, to a Jordanian father and an American mother.  She is the author of two novels, West of the Jordan (winner of a PEN Beyond Margins Award) and Once in a Promised Land. She lives in Tucson, Arizona. Her second collection of poetry, due out April 2022 from 2Leaf Press, why an author writes to a guy holding a fish [sic], is a story in verse chronicling the misadventures of a recently divorced woman dating in America.

18 April, 2022 • Laila Halaby

Joumana Haddad’s “The Book of Queens”: a Review

Laila Halaby on the new novel from Lebanon's multilingual feminist poet and powerhouse.

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15 February, 2022 • Laila Halaby

L.A. Story: Poems from Laila Halaby

Poet and novelist Laila Halaby writes her Los Angeles experience in a cascade of words that indelibly capture moments and memories.

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