Please join Belladonna* Collaborative for a spring reading featuring Nilufar Karimi and Khashayar Mohammadi, co-curated by Poupeh Missaghi and Zoe Tuck.

No one turned away for lack of funds! Email belladonnaseries@gmail.com if needed for Zoom link.

Nilufar Karimi is a poet, essayist and translator. She is the author of Nuclear Deal (2021), which won the Noemi Press Book Award. Her work has appeared in publications such as World Literature Today, Poetry Magazine, Asian American Writers' Workshop's The Margins, and is anthologized in Green Linden Press's Essential Voices: Poetry of Iran and Its Diaspora.

Khashayar “Kess” Mohammadi (He/They) is a queer, Iranian born, Toronto-based Poet, Writer and Translator. They were shortlisted for the 2021 Austin Clarke poetry prize, they are the winner of the 2021 Vallum Poetry Prize and the author of three poetry chapbooks and two translated poetry chapbooks. Their debut poetry collection "Me, You, Then Snow" is out with Gordon Hill Press. Their second book “WJD” is forthcoming in a double volume with the translation of Saeed Tavanaee’s “The OceanDweller” from Gordon Hill Press fall 2022. Their collaborative poetry manuscript with poet Klara Du Plessis is forthcoming with Palimpsest Press Fall 2023.