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Kayvan Tahmasebian Editor & Translator

Rebecca Ruth Gould is the author of Writers and Rebels: The Literatures of Insurgency in the Caucasus (2016). Her translations include After Tomorrow the Days Disappear (2016), and Prose of the Mountains (2015). She is Professor, Islamic World and Comparative Literature at the University of Birmingham.


Kayvan Tahmasebian

is a Marie-Curie Fellow at the University of Birmingham. He is a poet, critic, and the author of Isfahan’s Mold (Goman, 2016), Lecture on Fear and Other Poems (Radical Paper Press, 2019), and co-translator of High Tide of the Eyes: Poems by Bijan Elahi (The Operating System, 2019).