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Kaveh Bassiri

Kaveh Bassiri is an Iranian-American writer and translator. He is the author of 99 Names of Exile, winner of the Anzaldúa Poetry Prize, and Elementary English, winner of the Rick Campbell Chapbook Prize. His poems have been published in the anthologies Best American Poetry, Best New Poets, The Heart of a Stranger, Essential Voices: Poetry of Iran and Its Diaspora, and Somewhere We Are Human. His translations have appeared in the American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, Chicago Review, Fence, Lana Turner, Colorado Review, and Guernica. Bassiri is the recipient of the 2022-2023 Tulsa Artist Fellowship and a 2019 translation fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.