Roger Sedarat is the author of two poetry collections: Dear Regime: Letters to the Islamic Republic, which won Ohio UP's 2007 Hollis Summers' Prize, and Ghazal Games (Ohio UP, 2011). His translations of selected verse by the modern Persian poet Nader Naderpour is forthcoming from Cambria Press. He teaches poetry and literary translation in the MFA program at Queens College, City University of New York.