Ali Alizadeh

Ali Alizadeh (born 1976) is an Australian poet and academic.

Life
Alizadeh was born in Tehran, Iran. He won his first literary award at 13, for a prose version of the Iranian epic Shah-Nameh (Book of Kings). His family migrated to Australia that same year, and he attended high school in Queensland. He enrolled in in 1995 the creative writing program at Griffith University in 1995, where he began writing performance poetry and produced his first book, eliXir: a story in poetry. He then earned a Ph.D. at Deakins University.

His work has appeared in such literary magazines as Overland, HEAT, Southerly, Kalimat, The Warwick Review, Poetry Review, Wasafiri, Famous Reporter, Divan, Cordite Poetry Review, turnrow, Red Weather, Voiceworks and Woorilla; The Age newspaper; and anthologies such as Over There: Poems from Singapore and Australia, Said the Rat!, The Best Australian Poems 2008, Contemporary Australian Poetry in Chinese Translation, andItalic text'' Culture Is. . . Australian Stories Across Cultures''.

He lived in China 2005-2007, and then in Turkey and Dubai. He has a wife, Penelope, and a son, Jasper.

He lectures in creative writing at Monash University in Melbourne. Ashes in the Air – Ali Alizadeh (University of Queensland Press), Department of Regional Australia, Local Government, Arts and Sport, Government of Australia.

Recognition
Alizadeh won Verandah magazine’s 2000 Literary Award for his long poem "Princess".

Poetry

 * eliXir: a story in poetry. Mont Albert, Victoria: Grendon Press, 2002.
 * Eyes in Times of War. Cambridge, UK: Salt Publishing, 2006.
 * Ashes in the Air. University of Queensland Press, 2011.

Plays

 * Irene’s Inquisition. Melbourne: Chapel off Chapel, 2001.
 * Elixir. Melbourne: The Store Room, 2002.
 * A Sufi Valentine. Melbourne: La Mama Theatre, 2004.

Fiction

 * The New Angel. Melbourne: Transit Lounge Publishing, 2008.

Translated

 * Fifty Poems of Attar (with Kenneth Avery). Melbourne: re.press, 2007.

''Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy Poetry International Rotterdam.

Film

 * A Nocturne (with Bill Mousoulis). Melbourne: Innersense Productions, 2007.