Kaveh Akbar is a poet, novelist, editor, and educator whose writing appears in the Paris Review, New Yorker, New Republic, The Atlantic, Best American Poetry, Best American Sportswriting, and elsewhere. Akbar is the author of two books of poetry—Pilgrim Bell and Calling a Wolf a Wolf—and the New York Times bestselling novel Martyr!. He edited The Penguin Book of Spiritual Verse and co-edited Another Last Call: Poems on Addiction and Deliverance. Akbar also authored a chapbook, Portrait of the Alcoholic. His work explores sites of collision between faith and addiction with humor and tenderness.
Kaveh is the recipient of prestigious fellowships, including fellowships from the Guggenheim and Poetry Foundations. He was born in Tehran, Iran in 1989. Kaveh is currently on the English faculty at the University of Iowa and serves as the poetry editor for The Nation, a post previously held by James Baldwin.
Martyr! is a novel by Iranian American poet and novelist Kaveh Akbar. It was published in 2014 by Knopf Publishing Group. In his debut novel, Akbar incorporates his poetry prowess and takes a crack at literary fiction. A New York Times bestseller,...
