Kayvan Tahmasebian is an Iranian poet, translator, and critic. He is the author of Isfahan鈥檚 Mold (Goman, 2016), on the short story writer Bahram Sadeqi. Tahmasebian has translated Beckett, Rimbaud, T. S. Eliot, Ponge, and Mallarme虂 into Persian and Bijan Elahi into English.