Joumana Altallal is an Iraqi-Lebanese poet, researcher, and artist who was born in Baghdad and grew up in Charlottesville, Virginia. She received her B.A. from the University of Virginia and her M.F.A. in Poetry at the University of Michigan’s Helen Zell Writers’ Program.

During her time in Michigan, she worked with CityWide Poets to lead weekly poetry sessions for high school students in Metro-Detroit, and hosted workshops at the Arab American National Museum, and the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers' Conference, Napa Valley Writer's Conference, and the Radius for Arab American Writers.

Joumana currently resides in Charlottesville, where she is working on her first book.