Lana Issam Ghannam's poetry has appeared in The Revolution (Relaunch), Burrow Press Review, Mississippi Review, Prism Review, Raleigh Review, Spoon River Review, Sukoon, and The Cape Rock, among other journals. She is a first-generation Palestinian- American, born and raised in Central Florida. She received her MFA from the University of Central Florida in 2015, and her first poetry collection, Two Tongues, was published in 2019. Ghannam teaches English composition and lives in Florida with her husband and two sons.