Laurel Albina
Albina is a Canadian born, Palestinian-American writer and union organizer. Her writing is deeply influenced by her parents’ respective emigrations to Canada as a result of conflict and war. She is a 2011 alumnus of Hedgebrook and is currently attending The Writer’s Studio at Simon Fraser University. Her poetry has been published in Grey Sparrow Journal and Prairie Fire Magazine. She lives in Vancouver, BC with her partner and two young children.