Maryam Mortaz

Maryam Mortaz is an Iranian-American writer, translator and psychotherapist. She is the co-translator and co-editor (with Brad Gooch) of Rumi: Unseen Poems (Knopf 2019) and also the author of the short story collection Pushkin and Other Short Stories, published in Iran (2000). Translations of her work have appeared in such journals as Bomb, Poetry Magazine, World Literature Today, New Review of Literature, and Callaloo. She lives and works in New York City.

A.J. Naddaff is a multimedia journalist and translator. He received his bachelor’s degree in political science from Davidson College and is currently pursuing a Master’s in the department of Arabic literature and Near Eastern Studies at the American University of Beirut. His work has appeared in the LARB, the Associated Press, The Washington Post, the Intercept, and Columbia Journalism Review, among other outlets. Follow him on Twitter @ajnaddaff.