A Writer and Professor of English Literature Roger Sedarat is currently promoting the recent publication of Dear Regime: Letters to the Islamic Republic.

He received his B.A. in Sociology from The University of Texas-Austin, an M.A. in English/Creative Writing from Queens College and a Ph.D. in English at Tufts University. He has taught writing and literature at Queens College, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, LaGuardia Community College, Tufts University,and The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. His research interests include 19th and 20th century American literature, psychoana-lytic theory,and writing pedagogy.

His doctoral dissertation examined the figuration of New England landscape in the poetry of Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Walace Stevens, and Robert Lowell. An excerpt from chapter two of this project entitled, “Farming New England: Cultition of Meaning in Robert Frost’s Poetry” has been published in The Robert Frost Review. Professor Sedarat has also published much of his own verse in such journals as Atlanta Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and Green Mountain Review.

He has received several scholarships to the Bread Loaf Writers’Conference as well as a St.Botolph Society grant-in-aid. His poetry manuscript was recently named a finalist for the Bakeless First Book Contest and won the the 2007 Ohio University Hollis Summers Poetry Prize.

2007 Winner of the
Hollis Summers Poetry Prize
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Reviews

Midwest Book Review, “Library Bookwatch”, Vol. 3, No. 5; May 2008 (This needs to go directly to the section “The Poetry Shelf) Perhaps we can link to the posting on Amazon?

Small Press Spotlight: Roger Sedarat, Critical Mass; March 16, 2008


Critical Mass/National Book Critics Blog; March 16, 2008

Harriet: A Blog from the Poetry Foundation; Jan. 30, 2008

Announcing release of chapbook: From Tehran to Texas, Cervená Barva Press*

*Available for purchase at: www.thelostbookshelf.com