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Hajar Hussaini is a poet and translator. Disbound (University of Iowa Press, 2022) is her debut poetry collection. She received a 2024 Mo Habib Translation Prize in Persian Literature for her translation of the poetry collection Wounded Vita Nuda by Maral Taheri (Deep Vellum, 2026) and a 2025 PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant for her translation of Khosraw Mani’s novel, Death and His Brother (Syracuse University Press, 2026). Hussaini has won fellowships from the MacDowell and Baldwin for the Arts, as well as a 2023 Carol Anne Donahue Poetry Prize from Russell Sage College and a faculty development grant from Skidmore College, where she is an assistant teaching professor of English. Alongside Matthew Klane and Amie Zimmerman, she co-curates the Salon Salvage reading series in Troy, NY. Her writings and translations have appeared in Poetry, Poem-a-Day, Annulet, and Asymptote, anthologized in Rumi: Roaming and Daedalus, and translated into Slovak by Terézia Klasová for Revue Prostor.

Jamie Perez is the author of the chapbook There Were Rivers Before There Were People (Big Lucks, 2016), and his work has appeared in various magazine online and in print. In 2020, along with Adam Good, he founded STATIONS, a publisher of creative gaming tools and resources. Together with Adam, Rob Turpin and others, he created and published An Infinity of Ships(2025). Jamie lives and believes in Baltimore.