Kaveh Akbar

Kaveh Akbar is an Iranian-American poet, novelist and editor. He is the author of the novel Martyr!, a National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestseller, and of the poetry collections Pilgrim Bell and Calling a Wolf a Wolf. He also edited The Penguin Book of Spiritual Verse and, with Paige Lewis, Another Last Call. Akbar directs the University of Iowa's undergraduate creative writing program and is poetry editor of The Nation.