About

poupeh missaghi is a writer, scholar, editor, educator, and a translator both into and out of Persian. She holds a PhD in English and literary arts from the University of Denver, an MA in creative writing from Johns Hopkins University, as well as an MA in translation studies and a BA in translation practices from Azad University, Tehran. 

Her second work Sound Museum, A Theory Fiction is forthcoming from Coffee House Press in October 2024. Her debut novel trans(re)lating house one was published by Coffee House Press in February 2020. Her translations into English include Boys of Love, a novel by Ghazi Rabihavi (University of Wisconsin Press, 2024), In the Streets of Tehran, nonfiction by Nila (Ithaka Press, 2023), and I’ll Be Strong for You, a novel by Nasim Marashi (Astra House, 2021). 

She is currently an assistant professor of literary arts and studies at the English and Literary Arts Department at the University of Denver as well as a faculty mentor at the low-residency MFA program at Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland. Previously, she taught at the Department of Writing at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn; the Iowa International Writing Program summer youth programs, University of Iowa; and was a writing consultant at Baruch College, CUNY, NY. 

She also teaches in nonacademic settings, including Lighthouse Writers Workshop, Denver, and offers manuscript consultations. 

As an editor, she worked for many years with Asymptote and is coeditor of Matters of Feminist Practice from Belladonna* Collaborative, NY.