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Rajiv Mohabir

Rajiv Mohabir is the author of The Cowherd’s Son (Tupelo Press 2017, winner of the 2015 Kundiman Prize; Eric Hoffer Honorable Mention 2018) and The Taxidermist’s Cut (Four Way Books 2016, winner of the Four Way Books Intro to Poetry Prize, Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry in 2017), and translator of I Even Regret Night: Holi Songs of Demerara (1916) (Kaya Press 2019) which received a PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant Award. His nonfiction hybrid genre memoir Antiman won Reckless Books’ 2019 New Immigrant Writing Prize and is forthcoming 2021. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor of poetry in the MFA program at Emerson College and translations editor at Waxwing Journal.