Darius Atefat-Peckham

Darius Atefat-Peckham is an Iranian American poet and essayist. Atefat-Peckham is the author of Book of Kin, which won the 2023 Autumn House Poetry Prize, and the chapbook How Many Love Poems (Seven Kitchens Press, 2021). He is editor of his mother Susan Atefat-Peckham’s posthumous poetry collection Deep Are These Distances Between Us (CavanKerry Press, 2023). His work has appeared in Poem-a-Day, The Georgia Review, Indiana Review, Shenandoah, The Journal, Rattle, and elsewhere. His work has also been included in the anthology My Shadow Is My Skin: Voices from the Iranian Diaspora (University of Texas Press, 2020). 

In 2018, he was selected by the Library of Congress as a National Student Poet. In this role, he traveled across the Midwest to teach middle and high school students about the concurrence of grief and joy in literature. 

Atefat-Peckham grew up in Huntington, West Virginia, and attended Interlochen Arts Academy as a creative writing major. He studied English and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Harvard.