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Souri Ahmadlou

Souri Ahmadlou is an Iranian poet whose work has been published widely in Iran. She is currently a staff writer for Jahan-e Ketab — a national magazine that publishes book reviews — and continues to contribute to literary magazines. Ahmadlou’s first collection of poems, The Cherry Ladder Does Not Turn the Moon Red, was published in 2007 by Ahang-e Digar Press. Her second collection, A Stone for a Game of Seven-Stones, was published by the Morvārid Press in 2020.