Alen Hamza immigrated to the United States as a refugee from Bosnia and Herzegovina. He is the author of Twice There Was a Country (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, forthcoming 2020), selected by Brenda Hillman for the CSU Poetry Center First Book Award. His poems have appeared in Fence, AGNI, Narrative, The Southern Review, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere. He is a PhD candidate in literature and creative writing at the University of Utah. (updated 4/2020)