The C. K. Williams Reading Series presents Hala Alyan and Student Readers
Feb 10th 2026
Events @ Labyrinth Books
Tues 2/10 @ 6:00PM
Labyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street
The C.K. Williams Reading Series, named in honor of the late Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning poet C.K. Williams, who served on Princeton’s Creative Writing faculty for 20 years, showcases seniors in Princeton University’s Program in Creative Writing with established writers as special guests. Join us for a reading by Hala Alyan and Creative Writing seniors.
Hala Alyan is the author of the novels Salt Houses—winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Arab American Book Award, and a finalist for the Chautauqua Prize—and The Arsonists’ City, a finalist for the Aspen Words Literary Prize. She is also the author of five highly acclaimed collections of poetry, including The Twenty-Ninth Year and The Moon That Turns You Back. Her work has been published by The New Yorker, The Academy of American Poets, The New York Times, The Guardian, and Guernica. She lives in Brooklyn with her family, where she works as a clinical psychologist and professor at New York University.
This event is co-sponsored by Princeton University's Lewis Center for the Arts and Labyrinth Books.