Roger Sedarat is the author of two poetry collections: Dear Regime: Letters to the Islamic Republic, which won Ohio University Press’s Hollis Summers Poetry Prize, and Ghazal Games (Ohio University Press, 2011). His translations of classical and modern Persian poetry have appeared in such journals as World Literature Today, Drunken Boat, and Ezra. He teaches poetry and translation in the MFA program at Queens College, City University of New York.