Kazim Ali
Kazim Ali is a poet, essayist, fiction writer and translator. His BOA titles include the poetry collection, The Fortieth Day (2008), and The Oasis of Now (2013), poems by the late Iranian poet Sohrab Sepehri which he co-translated with Mohammad Jafar Mahallati. He is a contributing editor for the AWP Writers Chronicle, associate editor of the literary magazine FIELD, and founding editor of the small press Nightboat Books. Ali is currently an associate professor of Creative Writing and Comparative Literature at Oberlin College and teaches in the Masters of Fine Arts program of the University of Southern Maine.
