Khashayar Mohammadi

Khashayar "Kess" Mohammadi is a queer, Iranian-born poet, writer, and translator based in Toronto. They use they/them pronouns. They won the 2021 Vallum Poetry Prize and have been shortlisted for several awards, including the Austin Clarke Prize and Arc's Poem of the Year. Their debut collection, Me, You, Then Snow, came out with Gordon Hill Press in 2021, and they have published several chapbooks and translations from Persian. They have collaborated with poet Klara Du Plessis on the manuscript G, and their work has appeared in Arc Poetry Magazine's feature reviews.