Siavash Saadlou is a writer and translator from Iran. His fiction has appeared in Margins, and his poetry in Scoundreltime, Sons and Daughters, CIRQUE, KAIROS, and Saint Katherine Review. His translations of contemporary Persian poetry have been published in Washington Square Review, Visions International, Blue Lyra Review, and Asymptote, among many other journals. Saadlou holds an MFA in creative writing from Saint Mary's College of California, where he was also an English Composition teaching fellow. He lives in Tehran, Iran.