André Naffis-Sahely

André Naffis-Sahely is the author of two collections of poetry, The Promised Land: Poems from Itinerant Life (Penguin UK, 2017) and High Desert (Bloodaxe Books, 2022), as well as the editor of The Heart of a Stranger: An Anthology of Exile Literature (Pushkin Press, 2020). He is from Abu Dhabi but was born in Venice to an Iranian father and an Italian mother. He also co-edited Mick Imlah: Selected Prose (Peter Lang, 2015) and The Palm Beach Effect: Reflections on Michael Hofmann (CB Editions, 2013). He has translated more than 20 titles of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction, including works by Honoré de Balzac, Émile Zola, Abdellatif Laâbi, Ribka Sibhatu, and Tahar Ben Jelloun. His writing has appeared in The Baffler, The Nation, Harper's, New Statesman, Times Literary Supplement, Playboy, The Spectator, and World Literature Today, among others. He is a lecturer at the University of California, Davis in the US and the editor of Poetry London in the UK.