Roger Sedarat



Roger Sedarat is an Iranian-American poet.

Life
Sedarat was born in Normal, Illinois to an Iranian father and American mother, and grew up in San Antonio, Texas. After attending the University of Texas at Austin, he completed an M.A. in English/Creative Writing at Queens College, City University of New York, and a Ph.D. in English at Tufts University. He currently teaches poetry and literary translation in the Master of Fine ArtsMFA Program in Creative Writing and Literary Translation at Queens College.

He is the author of two poetry collections: Dear Regime: Letters to the Islamic Republic, which was   published by the Ohio University Press and won the Press's Hollis Summers' Poetry Prize, and Ghazal Games (Ohio University Press). In his poetry, he frequently crosses the post-modern American tradition with the classical Persian tradition, reproducing his hybrid identity in his verse. His poetry and literary translations have appeared in such journals as New England Review, Drunken Boat, Atlanta Review, and World Literature Today. A poem of his, "High Q"was included in an anthology published by the State University of New York Press  He is also the author of, Pupils of the Gorgeous Wheel: A Lacanian View of Landscape in Modern New England Poetry (Cambria). Under the name of "Haji," Roger writes and performs political poetry that challenges oppressive regimes as well as the construct of "Poetry" in the 21st century.