Poupeh Missaghi

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poupeh missaghi’s books include Sound Museum (2024) and trans(re)lating house one (2020), both with Coffee House Press. Her recent translations are Boys of Love, by Ghazi Rabihavi, and In the Streets of Tehran, by Nila. She is an assistant professor of English and Literary Arts at the University of Denver.

Reading in Iran: Literature That Crosses Borders

May 2025
Poupeh Missaghi, Emad Mortazavi, Leili Entezari, Rafa Rostami, Moeen Farrokhi
Photo of Saless Bookstore, Tehran by Sepideh Nazaralizadeh Many years ago, in the old days of dial-up internet, when I was still living in Iran, I would spend time reading book reviews online, maki…
On a Road of Grief: A Review of Hit the Road, by Panah Panahi

June 13, 2022 Poupeh Missaghi
Rayan Sarlak in the role of Little Brother from the film Hit the Road (2021) Editorial note: The following review includes spoilers. Hit the Road (2021),…
trans(re)lating house one by Poupeh Missaghi

Poupeh Missaghi
Minneapolis. Coffee House Press. 2020. 296 pages. POUPEH MISSAGHI'S DEBUT, trans(re)lating house one, is a hybrid novel set in the aftermath of Iran’s 2009…
Cities

Spring 2020
Poupeh Missaghi
I'VE ALWAYS BEEN drawn to narratives of cities, both as a reader and as a writer. In the early stages of my writing life, I loved reading depictions of Paris by writers such as Stein,…