Darius Atefat-Peckham

Darius Atefat-Peckham is an Iranian American poet and essayist. Atefat-Peckham is the author of the chapbook How Many Love Poems (Seven Kitchens Press, 2021) and editor of his mother Susan Atefat-Peckham’s posthumous poetry collection Deep Are These Distances Between Us (CavanKerry Press, 2023). His work has appeared in Poem-a-Day, The Georgia Review, Indiana Review, Shenandoah, The Journal, Rattle, and elsewhere. His work has also been included in the anthology My Shadow Is My Skin: Voices from the Iranian Diaspora (University of Texas Press, 2020). 

In 2018, he was selected by the Library of Congress as a National Student Poet. In this role, he traveled across the Midwest to teach middle and high school students about the concurrence of grief and joy in literature. 

Atefat-Peckham grew up in Huntington, West Virginia, and attended Interlochen Arts Academy as a creative writing major. He studied English and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Harvard.