Iraqi-American poet Dunya Mikhail has won the 2010 Arab American Book Award for Diary of a Wave Outside the Sea. Dunya taught at the first Between the Lines session—the one that had to be relocated to Chicago due to the Iowa River flood. Happily, and weather permitting, she will return next month to teach our third group of Between the Lines students at the University of Iowa. Congratulations, Dunya!

--Kecia Lynn