Sassan Tabatabai

Sassan Tabatabai is a poet and scholar of medieval Persian poetry. He is the author of 'Father of Persian Verse: Rudaki and His Poetry' (Leiden University Press: 2010), and teaches humanities and Persian literature at Boston University and Boston College. His creative writing and journalism has appeared in The Christian Science Monitor, Pusteblume; News from the Republic of Letters; Rattapallax; Leviathan Quarterly; Literary Imagination; Seneca Review; Clarion; and A World Between: Poems, Short Stories and Essays by Iranian-Americans.