Siavash Saadlou is a writer and literary translator whose short stories and essays have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net Anthology, appearing in Southeast Review, Plenitude Magazine, and Asymptote, among other journals. His poetry has been anthologized in Odes to Our Undoing: Writers Reflecting on Crisis (Risk Press) and Essential Voices: Poetry of Iran and Its Diaspora (Green Linden Press). Saadlou is also the winner of the 55th Cole Swensen Prize for Translation. He is currently an MFA candidate in the Creative Writing program at the University of British Columbia.
