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Morteza Dehghani

Morteza Dehghani is a poet and literary translator writing in English and Persian. He currently lives in Ontario, Canada, and teaches at the University of Waterloo. Morteza is the author of Send My Roots Rain (North Waterloo Academic Press, 2014), The Whale Who Breaks the Skin of Morning (in Farsi, the Maya Press, Tehran, 2016), and After Rumi and the Flute Concerto (in Farsi, Fasl-e Panojm, Tehran, 2019).