Rajiv Mohabir

Rajiv Mohabir

Festival Schedule

Poetry and Prose

Thursday April 21st, 2:00pm @ YouTube

Writing the Bizarre: A Craft Class with Rajiv Mohabir

Friday April 22nd, 9:00am @ The Catalyst Building

An Evening of Queer Poetry featuring Chen Chen

Friday April 22nd, 7:00pm @ Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture

Rajiv Mohabir’s memoir ANTIMAN (Restless Books 2021) received the 2019 Restless Books’ New Immigrant Writing Prize. He is also the author of three books of poetry including Cutlish (Four Way Books 2021), 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 and the 2020 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets. Currently he is an Assistant Professor of poetry in the MFA program at Emerson College, translations editor at Waxwing Journal.