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About Kaveh Akbar

Kaveh Akbar (born January 15, 1989; Persian: کاوه اکبر) is an Iranian-American poet, novelist, and editor. He is the author of the poetry collections Calling a Wolf a Wolf and Pilgrim Bell and of the novel Martyr!, a New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist.

Akbar is director of the University of Iowa's undergraduate creative writing program. He is the founder of Divedapper and Poetry Editor of The Nation. In 2018, NPR called him "poetry's biggest cheerleader". In 2024, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship and Time magazine put him on its TIME100 Next List.

Kaveh Akbar writes about Poetry, Literature, American poetry, American literature, Cyrus Shams, and Anthologies. Their best-known work is Martyr!.

On FindMyTBR we track 4 books by Kaveh Akbar, 2 of them confirmed as audiobooks on Spotify or Apple Books — including Martyr! and Märtyrer!. Full availability across Spotify, Apple Books, Audible, and Amazon is below.