Kaveh Bassiri

Kaveh Bassiri is an Iranian-American writer and translator. He is the author of 99 Names of Exile (Newfound, 2019), winner of the Anzaldúa Poetry Prize, and Elementary English (Anhinga, 2020), winner of the Rick Campbell Chapbook Prize. His translations have appeared in American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, Chicago Review, AGNI, Virginia Quarterly Review, and Guernica. Bassiri is the recipient of the 2022–23 Tulsa Artist Fellowship and a 2019 translation fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.