About Author

Roger Sedarat is an assistant professor of English and Creative Writing/Literary Translation at Queens College, City University of New York. He holds a PhD from Tufts University, an MA from Queens College, and a BA from University of Texas-Austin. Dr. Sedarat’s previous publications include a collection of poetry, Dear Regime, Letters to the Islamic Republic, which won Ohio University Press’s Hollis Summers’ Prize, literary translations, as well as scholarly articles on American and Middle-Eastern literature.