Ali Zarrin is a bilingual Iranian-American poet who was born in Kermanshah in 1952 and immigrated to the USA in 1970.  He graduated from the University of Washington with a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and is the author of ten books of poetry & Literary Criticism in English and Persian.  His poems, essays, and translations have appeared in numerous international magazines and anthologies, and have been translated into several languages.  His most recent work, The Book of I was published by City Lights of San Francisco.  His poetry will be included in an upcoming W. W. Norton anthology entitled Contemporary Poetry of the Eastern World co-edited by Ravi Shankar.  He has taught at the University of Washington, Charles Stewart Mott College, University of Colorado at Denver, and Naropa University in Boulder.  He currently lives with his wife and two sons in Lone Tree, Colorado and is a lecturer at Regis University.