Kazim Ali is a professor of Comparative Literature and Literary Arts at the University of California, San Diego. His books include volumes of poetry, essays, fiction, and cross-genre work, along with translations of Sohrab Sepehri, Marguerite Duras and Ananda Devi.

He has edited numerous collections, including Jean Valentine: This-World Company, and New Moons: Contemporary Writing by North American Muslims.  He previously served as co-editor of the Poets on Poetry Series and the Under Dicussion Series, both from the University of Michigan Press, contributing editor of AWP Writers Chronicle, and is the founding editor of Nightboat Books. 

Website: www.kazimali.com

Twitter Username: @kazimalipoet

Publications

• Sky Ward , Wesleyan University Press (2013)
• The Oasis of Now: Selected Poems of Sohrab Sepehri (translation) , BOA Editions (2013)
• Jean Valentine: This-World Company , University of Michigan Press (2012)
• Fasting for Ramadan: Notes from a Spiritual Practice , Tupelo Press (2011)
• Orange Alert: Essays on Poetry, Art and the Architecture of Silence , University of Michigan Press (2010)
• Water's Footfall by Sohrab Sepehri (translation) , Omnidawn (2011)
• Bright Felon: Autobiography and Cities , Wesleyan University Press (2009)
• The Disappearance of Seth: a novel , Etruscan Press (2009)
• The Fortieth Day (poems) , BOA Editions (2008)
• The Far Mosque (poems) , Alice James Books (2005)
• Quinn's Passage: a novel , BlazeVox Books (2005)
• L'Amour by Marguerite Duras (translation) , Open Letter (2013)
• Abahn Sabana David by Marguerite Duras (translation) (2016)
• Resident Alien (essays) , University of Michigan Press (2015)
• Wind Instrument (lyric prose) , Spork Press (2014)
• All One's Blue: New and Selected Poems , HarperCollins India (2015)
• When the Night Agrees to Speak to Me by Ananda Devi (translation) , HarperCollins India (2016)

Awards

• Ohio Book Award for Poetry(2014)

Employment

• Associate Professor of Creative Writing and Comparative Literature and Director of Creative Writing at Oberlin College

Degrees

• Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from New York University (May 2001)

Genres of Interest

Fiction, Creative nonfiction, Poetry, Fiction, Creative nonfiction, Poetry