Kaveh Akbar is an Iranian-American poet, essayist, and professor. He is the author of two collections of poetry, Calling a Wolf a Wolf and Portrait of the Alcoholic, and his work has appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The New York Times, and The New Republic. Akbar is the founder and editor of Divedapper, an online literary journal, and he teaches poetry at Purdue University. He has received numerous awards and honors, including a Pushcart Prize, a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship, and a Whiting Award. Akbar's work is known for its exploration of faith, addiction, and identity.