About

Kaveh Akbar is the founding editor of Divedapper. His poems can be found in the New Yorker, Poetry, the American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. He is the author of Calling a Wolf a Wolf and the chapbook Portrait of the Alcoholic. The recipient of a 2016 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, Akbar was born in Tehran, Iran, and currently lives and teaches in Florida.