Kaveh Bassiri is an Iranian-American writer and translator, who was born in Tehran and came to United States as a teenager. He is the author of two chapbooks, 99 Names of Exile, winner of the Anzaldúa Poetry Prize in 2018 and Elementary English, winner of Rick Campbell Chapbook Prize in 2020. He also is the recipient of the Bellingham Review’s 49th Parallel Award. His poems have been published or are forthcoming in Best American Poetry 2020, Best New Poets 2020, Verse Daily, Virginia Quarterly Review, Copper Nickel, Beloit Poetry Journal, Nimrod International Journal, The Cincinnati Review, Shenandoah, and TYPO.
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