was born in the desert city of Yazd in central Iran. He holds a degree in Comparative Literature from the University of Malaya (Malaysia) and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of New Brunswick, Canada. He has published several translated works of fiction, including Reza Ghassemi’s
The Spell Chanted by Lambs, Simon Van Booy’s
Love Begins in Winter and
The Illusion of Separateness, Gene Bell-Villada’s
García Márquez: The Man and His Work, Julian Barnes’s Flaubert’s
Parrot, and Jeanette Winterson’s
The Passion.
His short stories and translations have appeared in numerous journals, including Poem-a-Day (Academy of American Poets), World Literature Today, Asymptote Journal, Jacket2, Y’alla, Rattle, QWERTY, and Konch. His translation of Hafiz,
Hafiz’s Little Book of Life (co-translated with Gary Gach), was published by Hampton Roads in September 2023. A painter since the COVID-19 pandemic, he held his first solo exhibition at Homa Gallery in October 2025. He is the recipient of the Tehran School of Art Short Story Award and the David Walker Prize for Creative Writing. For more information, visit
ErfanMojib.com.
You can find Erfan on Instagram (@erfan.mojib), X/Twitter (@JoseArcadioXVI), and
Facebook.
