Kaveh Akbar
Iranian-American poet and scholar
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Kaveh Akbar (کاوه اکبر) is an Iranian-American poet and scholar. Akbar was born in Tehran, Iran, in 1989. He is the author of Pilgrim Bell, published by Graywolf Press, Calling a Wolf a Wolf, published by Alice James Books in the US and Penguin Books in the UK, and the chapbook, Portrait of the Alcoholic, published by Sibling Rivalry Press. In 2014, he founded the poetry interview website Divedapper. He received his MFA from Butler University, and his PhD in Creative Writing from Florida State University. He is a faculty member at Purdue University, and on the faculty of the low-residency MFA programs at Randolph College and Warren Wilson College. In 2018, he married the American poet Paige Lewis.
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