Darius Atefat-Peckham is the author of Book of Kin winner of the Autumn House Poetry Prize and finalist for the 2025 Nossrat Yassini Poetry Prize (October, 2024) and editor of his mother’s, Susan Atefat-Peckham’s, posthumous collection Deep Are These Distances Between Us (CavanKerry Press, 2023). His work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Poetry Magazine, Poem-a-Day, The Kenyon Review, Oxford Poetry, The American Poetry Review, and elsewhere. Atefat-Peckham grew up in Huntington, West Virginia and is currently a Poetry Fellow at the Michener Center for Writers in Austin, Texas.
