About
Alia Yunis is a writer and filmmaker and a past PEN Emerging Voice Fellow. Her feature
documentary, The Golden Harvest (2019), a 6,000-year-old love story that began in
Palestine, is currently playing in festivals and other venues and won Best of the Fest at
its US debut at the Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival. Her debut novel, The
Night Counter (Random House), was critically-acclaimed by the Washington Post, the Boston
Globe, Entertainment Weekly and several publications. Alia thinks about trees a lot and is
currently producing an interactive documentary, Tree-Routed, connecting people’s
personal stories around their trees to a shared heritage across the oceans. She is also
writing a screenplay about a Muslim girl in small Minnesota town obsessed with
Christmas trees. Her fiction and non-fiction writings and film works have have been
translated into 10 languages.
