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.
