Kaveh Akbar’s poems appear in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The New York Times, Best American Poetry, and elsewhere. He is the author of two books of poetry - Pilgrim Bell (Graywolf, 2021) and Calling a Wolf a Wolf (Alice James, 2017) - and the editor of The Penguin Book of Spiritual Verse. Born in Tehran, Iran, Akbar teaches at Purdue University and in the low-residency M.F.A. programs at Randolph and Warren Wilson colleges. He serves as poetry editor for The Nation.