Darius Atefat-Peckham

Darius Atefat-Peckham is the author of Book of Kin, winner of the Autumn House Poetry Prize (October 2024) and editor of his mother’s, Susan Atefat-Peckham’s, posthumous collection Deep Are These Distances Between Us (CavanKerry Press 2023). His work has recently appeared in Poetry Magazine, Poem-a-Day, The Kenyon Review, Rattle, The Journal, The Georgia Review, and elsewhere. In 2018, he was selected by the Library of Congress as National Student Poet. Atefat-Peckham grew up in Huntington, West Virginia and earned a Bachelor of Arts in English at Harvard. He is currently a Poetry Fellow at the Michener Center for Writers in Austin, Texas.