RAYA TUFFAHA
  • Note from Raya
  • Acting
    • Bella Bateekh in: Out of Mind
  • Fight Directing
  • Writing
    • apocalypse blues
    • To All the Yellow Flowers
  • Events + Press
  • Contact
W R I T I N G
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Raya is the author of To All the Yellow Flowers (Golden Antelope Press, 2020), which won the Swarthmore Intercultural Center Arts in Activism Award and was listed in Ms. Magazine's 2020 National Poetry Month Roundup, and apocalypse blues (Plan B Press, 2023), from which selected poems were featured in Moonstone Arts Center's 26th Annual Poetry Ink Anthology.

Before publishing her work, Raya was heavily involved with the Seattle slam poetry scene. In 2019, she helped Team Seattle take third place at Brave New Voices, the largest international youth slam poetry tournament in the world. Noelle Kakimoto listed Raya under "The Best of Brave New Voices 2019." Since then, Raya's maintained her relationship with YouthSpeaks Seattle, and collaborated with Third Charm Films to preserve their great work.

Raya writes in search of an echo, a portal, or the gates Sinbad swung through to reach the edge of the world. She believes in literature as a gathering place and a force for liberation.

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i do not spill blood
Cover image: the cast of White Noise, Johan Persson
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Cantastoria Of My Kitchen Or My Place On This Earth
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Three Poems, Swarthmore Review
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Copyright 2023 Raya Tuffaha
  • Note from Raya
  • Acting
    • Bella Bateekh in: Out of Mind
  • Fight Directing
  • Writing
    • apocalypse blues
    • To All the Yellow Flowers
  • Events + Press
  • Contact