Darius Atefat-Peckham

Darius Atefat-Peckham  is an Iranian-American poet and essayist. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Poem-a-Day, The Georgia Review, Indiana Review, Barrow Street, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Journal, and many others. He’s also been included in many anthologies, including My Shadow is My Skin: Voices from the Iranian Diaspora (University of Texas Press). In 2018, he was selected by the Library of Congress as a National Student Poet, and traveled the Midwest in this capacity to teach middle school and high school-aged students about the concurrence of grief and joy in literature. Atefat-Peckham is the author of the chapbook How Many Love Poems (Seven Kitchens Press). He grew up in Huntington, West Virginia, and currently studies English and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Harvard College.